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“It’s alright to be nude, but if it moves, it’s rude.” – The Extraordinary History of the Windmill Theatre

“It’s alright to be nude, but if it moves, it’s rude.” – The Extraordinary History of the Windmill Theatre

The World's press used the Windmill Theatre to symbolise London’s ‘Blitz Spirit’ often illustrated by similar stories of a naked young woman breaking the no-moving rule by either giving a V-sign or thumbing her nose at a nearby exploding bomb. ...
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The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

The Cotton Club Revue Visit the London Palladium in 1937

Their speciality is rhythm; rhythm which is merely a nervous tremor, and rhythm that does not so much stimulate as achieve frenzy! ...
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‘Pathetic, unjustifiable, appalling pornography’ – Fifty Years of Oh! Calcutta!

‘Pathetic, unjustifiable, appalling pornography’ – Fifty Years of Oh! Calcutta!

"In many ways it is a ghastly show: ill-written, juvenile, and attention-seeking. But it is not a menace". ...
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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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Photos of the West End of London, 1965-1968

Photos of the West End of London, 1965-1968

Born in Australia Greg Lehey went to school in Malaysia, Australia and in England - these photographs were taken during several trips to London. ...
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Happy and Glorious! Fantastic Pictures of VE Day in London, 1945

Happy and Glorious! Fantastic Pictures of VE Day in London, 1945

London's party that ended all parties - one week after Hitler's suicide. ...
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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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An Evening Stroll Around London’s West-End in November 1955

An Evening Stroll Around London’s West-End in November 1955

On the evening of 5th November Allan Hailstone went on a stroll around a brightly lit West End and here are some of his pictures he took that night… ...
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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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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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