40+ Fabulous Demolition Photographs of 1974 Show How Much Notting Hill Has Changed _s2uk
Peter Rachman (1920-1962) was a London landlord in the mid-20th century, active in the Notting Hill area in the 1950s and 1960s. Rachman’s name is so synonymous with bad housing that is included in English dictionaries: Rachmanism: ‘Landlords buying up slums…
Wonderful England in the Early 1950s Taken by Hardwicke Knight _s2uk
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…
24+ Fascinating Vintage Photos of Soho, London Over the Years _s2uk
Circa 1910: The smallest shop in London at 4 Bateman Street, Soho. The shop, occupied by a cobbler, is six feet long, five feet high and two feet deep. The rent is three pounds a week.(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 10…
27 Brilliant Photographs Capture Working-Class Life on the Streets of the U.K in the Post-war Era _s2uk
Roger Mayne was one of the outstanding British photographers of the postwar period. He is best known as the photographic poet of London’s dynamic street life in the then dilapidated area of Notting Dale in North Kensington. He photographed one…
31+ Black and White Photos Show King’s Cross-an inner city area of London in the 1950s _s2uk
King’s Cross (also Kings Cross) is an inner city area of London, England. It is the location and namesake of King’s Cross railway station, one of the major gateways into London from the North. Formerly a red light district, the area…
40+ Vintage Photographs Capture Street Scenes of London’s East End in the Early Post-War Years _S2uk
Nigel Henderson (1917-1985) was a British artist and founding member of the Independent Group, but he was also a photographer whose work has been compared to that of Cartier-Bresson and Brassai. Introduced to the art world by his mother Wyn…
Amazing Then and Now Photos Merge London’s Ghosts of Christmas Past _s2uk
Christmas can be a wonderful time of year for friends and family, but have the modern trappings removed some of the magic from the holiday season? Getty Images photographer Peter Macdiarmid combed through the photo service’s archives and digitally combined…
Vivid Vintage Photos of Life in London in the 1970s _s2uk
The nostalgic images show the capital’s landmarks in the 1970s, a decade of feminism, Arsenal’s FA cup win and the launch of the concord. The era is known for being a time of cultural and political change – especially due…
“The East End In Colour”: Rare and Gorgeous Kodachrome Photographs of London in the 1960s and 1970s _s2uk
These previously unpublished photographs by David Granick capture the streets and waterways of London’s East End in the warm hues of Kodachrome film. Journey back in time to a place now long vanished. David Granick (1912-1980) was a photographer who…