Piccadilly Circus
In August 1959 Graham and Marion Knott made a weekend trip to London to stay with relatives in the Elephant and Castle. They took some great colour snapshots that enable us to see London in the late 1950s in a way most professional photographers couldn’t hope to catch.
Trafalgar Square
Petticoat Lane market
Piccadilly Circus
Trafalgar Square
Petticoat Lane market
Royal Festival Hall
London Bridge from Tower Wharf
Speaker’s Corner
St Paul’s Cathedral
Petticoat Lane market 1959
Tower of London
August 1959, Houses of Parliament
Piccadilly Circus
All these photos were taken by Graham Knott and can be seen (along with many others) at Simon Knott’s Flickr account.
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