London east end 1950s

London, England, 1954. [Credit : Marc Riboud]

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

The Elephant in the Room. Royal Docks, London, 1950. Liner at the end of the street (like Venice today, and just as startling). #1950s…

Photos of London past and present.

'Wapping Slums', Tenement housing in East London 1950s, photo Bert Hardy. (from the Vintage Guide To London)

For five days in December 1952, normal life in London came screeching to a halt, as a Great Smog descended. How much damage did it cause? Rhiannon Davies explains more…

1950s Whitechapel

Woolworth's at 142-146 Stoke Newington High Street in the 1950s

Photographs of a shabby capital struggling to escape from the seventies recession.

Oxford Circus, London 1958

Gardiner's Corner, 1963

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“Numbers 642 & 644 Commercial Road in 1964. A recently-digitised 35mm slide.”