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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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Liberty Of London Window Displays, December 1962

Liberty Of London Window Displays, December 1962

In December 1962, Allan Hailstone took these photographs of London department store window displays. If ...
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An Evening at El Morocco with the Kray Twins and Barbara Windsor

An Evening at El Morocco with the Kray Twins and Barbara Windsor

In 1964 a man called Hew McGowan, a wealthy baronet's son, bought a nightclub in ...
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Fascinating Photos of London’s Soho Between the Wars

Fascinating Photos of London’s Soho Between the Wars

[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can ...
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