Candid Snaps of a Group of Women Spent Time Together in a Pub in Bermondsey, on a Day Trip to Margate, ca. 1950s
Mother’s Day Off was a photostory by British photographer Grace Robertson about a group of women from Bermondsey in South London enjoying a day-trip to the coast. It was one of a series of articles in which Picture Post looked at the ways…
Vibrant and Multicultural: 31 Colorful Photos of Portobello Road, One of London’s Most Famous Streets in the Eighties
Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in west London. It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from south to north, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove. On Saturdays…
56 Amazing Vintage Photos of Everyday Life in London in the 1920s
Most of the pictures here come from the triple volume Wonderful London, with many of them by photographer Donald McLeish. Published in the 1920s and long out of print, this huge work is an astonishing feat and a valuable addition…
35 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of London in the Early 20th Century
London entered the 20th century at the height of its influence as the capital of one of the largest empires in history, but the new century was to bring many challenges. London’s population continued to grow rapidly in the early…
Captivating images of British youth in the 1950s offer a glimpse into the past
Take a look back at the youth, the spivs, the Teddy boys and girls in post-war England in the 1950s through 20 fascinating black-and-white vintage photographs: Four young men at a smart London bar, 1953. (Bert Hardy) A gang member…
27 Black and White Photos That Capture Street Scenes of York, England in 1960
York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The municipality is the traditional county town of the historic county of Yorkshire to which it gives its name. The city…
Beautiful Vintage Photos of Wolverhampton From 1975 to 1986
Wolverhampton is a city, metropolitan borough, and administrative centre in the West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, the city grew initially as a market town specializing in the wool trade. During the Industrial Revolution, it became a major centre…
Vintage Photographs of People Donning Fancy Costumes at Synwell Carnival in Wotton-under-Edge in the Late 1960s
These photographs of floats at the Synwell Carnival were taken by Brian Candy in 1954. The historic carnival, once the event of the year in Synwell, saw a procession of floats featuring residents in fancy dress tour around Wotton-under-Edge, a…
Wonderful England in the Early 1950s Taken by Hardwicke Knight
Born 1911 in the North London suburb of Stoke Newington, photographer, historian and collector Hardwicke Knight emigrated to New Zealand in 1957 to take up a medical photography position in Dunedin. He lived at Broad Bay until ten months before…
30 Vintage Photos Show What Kids Used to Do For Fun in the 1950s
For contemporary children, it may be difficult to imagine kids having fun in the 1950s. Not only were there were no video games, even children’s television programming operated at a bare minimum, with the medium still in its infancy at…