Found Photos Show Life of a Family At Bruntsfield, Edinburgh in 1954
Bruntsfield is a largely residential area around Bruntsfield Place in Southern Edinburgh, Scotland. In feudal times, it fell within the barony of Colinton. Bruntsfield Place is less than 1 mile (1.6 km) south on the A702 main road from the…
20 Vintage Photos Captured People Gargling to Against the Flu From the Early 20th Century
The flu arrived as a great war raged in Europe, a conflict that would leave about 20 million people dead over four years. In 1918, the flu would kill more than twice that number – and perhaps five times as…
35 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of Ipswich in the 1970s
Ipswich is a historic county town in Suffolk, England. The town is located in East Anglia about 10 miles (16 km) away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern…
23 Extraordinary Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in Northern England During the 1960s
John Bulmer was a pioneer of color photography in the early 1960s working for the Sunday Times Magazine from the very first issue till the 1970s John Bulmer’s superb photographs were taken at a time when the North was undergoing a vast transformation….
25 Fascinating Black and White Photos Capture Daily Life in London in 1964
Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used…
Amazing Then and Now Pictures of Women From London’s ’80s Subcultures _ UK
In 1980, photographer Anita Corbin started taking pictures of young women in London’s pubs and clubs, documenting the unseen lives of various subcultures. Over the course of nine months her project turned into a series, Visible Girls, that offered a glimpse…
32 Vintage Photographs of Women at Work in the United Kingdom in World War II _ UK
With thousands of men away serving in the armed forces, British women took on a variety of jobs during the Second World War. They also played a vital role on the home front, running households and fighting a daily battle…
Dancing on the Beach _ UK
Vintage photos of people dancing on the beach. Berliners at the Wansee resort during a heatwave enjoying a dance on the beach, 1925. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) Margaret Morris dancers exercising on the sands at Saint-Idesbald, August 1929….
Britain in an Innocent Age: 46 Extraordinary Snapshots Document Everyday Life of Post-WWII England _ UK
The memories may have faded, but these extraordinary found photos from Martin Snelling of bygone Britain are so clear, they look as though they could have been taken yesterday. Old-fashioned shops line streets dotted with classic 1950s and 1960s cars, couples wear…
Vintage Brochures of Pontins Holiday Camps in the ‘80s _ UK
“All the best people come to Pontins” was the caption printed on a publicity brochure of Pontins, a British company operating holiday parks in the UK, founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin. It specializes in offering half-board and self-catering holidays…