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 Amazing Color Photographs of England Before the Launching of the D-Day, 1944
Unlike V-E Day (“Victory in Europe”) or V-J Day (“Victory over Japan”), the “D” in D-Day isn’t short for “departure” or “decision.” The terms D-Day and H-Hour are used for the day and hour on which a combat attack or…
The Real British Life in the 1970s
In the early 1970s, a small group of photographers calling themselves the Co-Optic Group—including Martin Parr, Gerry Badger, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, and Stephen Weiss—set out to take picture-postcard snapshots of what the ‘real Britain’ looked like. Their results are by turns…
20 Stunning Black and White Photos Capturing London in the Early 20th Century
In the early 20th century, Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972) began one of the most unique photographic documents of London where for over forty years he worked tirelessly to record London’s transition from a 19th century city into a modern metropolis….
42 Stunning photographs depict London’s street scenes from the 1930s
Here is a fantastic photo collection that shows street scenes of London in the 1930s. A milk bar in Bear Street, central London, 1936 A trader on a horse and trap outside Long Acre in Covent Garden, circa 1930 A…