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Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

Sex, Drugs, Jazz and Gangsters – The Disreputable History of Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown

  At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - ...
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The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

The World As He Sees It: An Exclusive Interview with Legendary Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg

At the start of his teens, Schadeberg was forced into the Hitler Youth. He hated it and everything it represented. Sometimes he marched backwards, or wore bright colours instead of the standard issue brown shirt. On other occasions he mimicked Charlie Chaplin as der Führer. ...
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Rediscovered Hair Portraits From CUTS, the Legendary London Salon that Styled 80s Subcultures

Rediscovered Hair Portraits From CUTS, the Legendary London Salon that Styled 80s Subcultures

At the center of 80s counterculture in London was CUTS, a salon founded by hairdressers James Lebon and Steve Brooks. ...
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Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

Christine Keeler, Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter in Wardour Street

How Georgie Fame and the Flamingo All-Nighter brought down the Tory Government! ...
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The Glory of Seedy Soho

The Glory of Seedy Soho

Photos from an exhibition celebrating London's most vibrant square mile ...
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Club Americana and the Flamingo All-Nighter on Wardour Street, 1952-1965

Club Americana and the Flamingo All-Nighter on Wardour Street, 1952-1965

In March 1962, a month after Billy Fury had dismissed them as his backing band - he felt they were 'too jazzy' - Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames started a three-year residency at The Flamingo Club... ...
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Evocative Photos of London’s West End in the 1950s

Evocative Photos of London’s West End in the 1950s

A keen photographer since childhood, Allan Hailstone’s beautiful images are a tribute to London of the 1950s. ...
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‘Hot Pants Galore! – Pictures of a Seedy Soho in March 1972

‘Hot Pants Galore! – Pictures of a Seedy Soho in March 1972

Corruption in Soho – essentially collusion between the ‘pornographers’ and the police in the late sixties and early seventies - was an open secret amongst journalists, lawyers and the police themselves. Although almost no one knew the extent of it. ...
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Once the ‘Swingingest Street in the World’: Pictures of Carnaby Street 1924-1975

Once the ‘Swingingest Street in the World’: Pictures of Carnaby Street 1924-1975

"Perhaps nothing illustrates the new swinging London better than narrow, three-block-long Carnaby Street, which is crammed with a cluster of the 'gear' boutiques where the girls and boys buy each other clothing..." - TIME magazine, April 1966 ...
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Captivating Pictures from a Stroll Around Soho on March 15 1966

Captivating Pictures from a Stroll Around Soho on March 15 1966

Someone, for some reason, walked around Soho on this day and took some photographs, and here they are... ...
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Fascinating Photos of Soho in the 1950s

Fascinating Photos of Soho in the 1950s

"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent." Quentin Crisp ...
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The Incredible Story of the ‘Prostitutes Padre’ – the Vicar of Stiffkey

The Incredible Story of the ‘Prostitutes Padre’ – the Vicar of Stiffkey

The Reverend Harold Francis Davidson, Rector of the small Norfolk coastal village of Stiffkey for twenty-five years, was utterly besotted and bewitched by pretty young girls. Of that there is no doubt. How he behaved in the company of said pretty young girls was more up for debate. ...
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