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Extraordinary Pictures of ‘Hippiedilly’ on Hyde Park Corner in 1969

Extraordinary Pictures of ‘Hippiedilly’ on Hyde Park Corner in 1969

Drug taking, couples making love while others look on, a heavy mob armed with iron bars, filth and stench, foul language, that is the scene inside the hippies’ fortress in London’s Piccadilly. These are not rumours but facts, sordid facts which will shock ordinary decent living people. Drug taking, squalor and sex. ...
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The Story of How Covent Garden was Nearly Razed to the Ground

The Story of How Covent Garden was Nearly Razed to the Ground

The Covent Garden redevelopment scheme covered 96 acres in an area bounded by the Strand, Aldwych, High Holborn, Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road and it proposed the large-scale demolition of the great majority of the 18th and 19th century buildings around the historic old market. ...
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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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Queues, Fumes, Crowds and Pickpockets – 100 Years of London’s Oxford Street

Queues, Fumes, Crowds and Pickpockets – 100 Years of London’s Oxford Street

Oxford Street, long before it became part of the A40, was once part of a Roman Road called Via Trinobantina which linked Silchester and Colchester via London. ...
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A Stroll Around a Neon-Lit Soho in 1977

A Stroll Around a Neon-Lit Soho in 1977

  We don't know who took these found photos but probably by an American tourist ...
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Colour Snapshots of London in the 1950s

Colour Snapshots of London in the 1950s

London in the 1950s These photos are courtesy of dianp on Flickr and were taken ...
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Stunning Pictures of London’s West End by Bob Hyde c.1965

Stunning Pictures of London’s West End by Bob Hyde c.1965

Pictures taken on a walk up Charing Cross Road from Piccadilly Circus to Cambridge Circus ...
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Pictures and Films of Berwick Street Market in London’s Soho

Pictures and Films of Berwick Street Market in London’s Soho

Where Noel Coward bought smart socks and Gertrude Lawrence smart stockings at bargain prices in their early days... ...
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The Tale of Bobby Britt and ‘Prudes on the Prowl’ at the Empire Theatre

The Tale of Bobby Britt and ‘Prudes on the Prowl’ at the Empire Theatre

‘But Mr Britt was going to give us a Salome dance!’ ...
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Pictures of a Run-down Soho and Covent Garden in 1979

Pictures of a Run-down Soho and Covent Garden in 1979

It's almost shocking how much the West-End of London has changed in the last forty years or so... ...
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Evocative Photographs of London in 1969

Evocative Photographs of London in 1969

On the way to Liverpool to visit friends Bernd Loos, feeling unwell, stopped for one afternoon ...
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Buy Prints Glorious Colour Photographs of London in 1972

Glorious Colour Photographs of London in 1972

All we know about these fascinating photos of London in 1972 is that they were ...
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