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‘The Morning After’ – Evocative Photos of London 1980-85

‘The Morning After’ – Evocative Photos of London 1980-85

Trevor Fletcher lived in London on and off during the late 1970s and 80s. His photographs are a fantastic record of the time. ...
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Captivating Colour Photographs of London, 1970-1974

Captivating Colour Photographs of London, 1970-1974

These fabulous photographs of London in the the early part of the 1970s are shown ...
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Around The World In Kodachrome  – A Nobel Laureate’s Outstanding Travel Photographs

Around The World In Kodachrome – A Nobel Laureate’s Outstanding Travel Photographs

In the 1950s and 60s Martin Karplus took his camera where ever he went - and he went everywhere (pretty much) ...
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Photos of a Desolate and Deserted London from 1977

Photos of a Desolate and Deserted London from 1977

These fascinating photos were taken by John Goodman an Australian who made two trips to UK in the mid 1970s. ...
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“Fun-Maker” Pauline Fordham and her Swinging Sixties Boutique in Soho, 1966

“Fun-Maker” Pauline Fordham and her Swinging Sixties Boutique in Soho, 1966

Palisades was opened by Pauline Fordham on Ganton Street, just off Carnaby Street and the self-styled “Fun-Maker”, as the Daily Express called her, opened the boutique with “a rousing party”. ...
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MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

MacDonald Gill’s Wonderful Maps for W.H. Smith & Son and the Empire Marketing Board (1931)

In the 1930s the British high-street store W.H.Smith & Son operated a vast commercial empire and they commissioned artist MacDonald Gill to produce a map of the company's world. ...
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‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

‘The Wednesday’ – and the Death of the Crooner Al Bowlly

The band leader Ray Noble once said of Al Bowlly that he often stepped away from the microphone with tears in his eyes: “never mind him making you cry, he could make himself cry!” ...
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Great Britain by Bus in Glorious Kodachrome (1969-1971)

Great Britain by Bus in Glorious Kodachrome (1969-1971)

An Australian tourist's snapshots of Great Britain in the lat 1960s and early 1970s ...
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‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses Pub by Ray Bellisario in 1968

Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses Pub by Ray Bellisario in 1968

"I’d just bought a new car. It was a Ford Consul which I’d parked right behind us. So I grabbed her arm and I said, ‘Come with me,’ and she did! And she said, 'Oh, this is fun, I’ve been kidnapped!'" ...
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Edwin Smith: Photographing Beauty In Everyday Landscapes

Edwin Smith: Photographing Beauty In Everyday Landscapes

"I am an architect by training, a painter by inclination, and a photographer by necessity" - Edwin Smith ...
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Buy Prints Curtis Moffat: Bright Young Things;  Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935

Curtis Moffat: Bright Young Things; Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935

"A gentle, quiet, easy-going man with velvet eyes and enormous charm, Curtis Moffat was the most Europeanised of Americans. He seemed to be only 'at home' in the quietness of his book-filled rooms. But appearances are deceptive; in fact he was the centre of enormous creative activity. " Cecil Beaton ...
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