London Town 54 is now on You Tube too. With 16 videos London Town 54 is on You Tube. Key in Pete Grafton, or, London Photos 1954 to access the You Tube presentation. Click for Intro and Womens Fashions http://youtu.be/COP5Gg0Rpnk This online publication is free, and quotes and segments are available to local newspaper […]
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5. Rain, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross, Soho, Downing Street & Westminster
“Rain” Despite giving it a page heading – Rain – Hans Richard has pasted in only four photos. Most of his photos in his Scrapbook show a dry, sunny London from late August through to when he left in late October, 1954. The women are often bare armed (summer gloves apart), and sometimes bare shouldered. […]
6. The South Side: Lambeth, The Imperial War Museum, The Royal Festival Hall & Esmeralda
In the middle of the road is a Harrison & Sons ‘General Printers’ van. Despite the lowly moniker of ‘General Printers’ painted on its rear, Harrison & Sons were specialist printers, who printed nearly all the British Royal Mail stamps between the 1930s and up to the 1990s. They also, in their time, printed banknotes for over […]
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