please log in to view this image Peter Fechter,18 year old bricklayer, lies dying at the foot of the Berlin Wall, after he was shot, 1962
Quite a collection here from the 1940s. A fascinating picture of the Three Kings Pub on the junction of West Cromwell/Talgarth Rd and North End Rd which is now perhaps the busiest stretch of road in London leading in/out on the A4 but which looks like a side road back then... http://londonist.com/london/history/here-s-what-london-looked-like-in-the-1940s
Two things stuck out for me - First that everyone wore overcoats all the time, second that it took 2 days to rebuild a bombed bridge. Two years if you are lucky today.
Great photos. Quite a few of the isle of dogs where I now live, very few pre1940 buildings survived the War and the closure of the docks in the early 1980s. They need to reinstate the pedestrian traffic lines.
please log in to view this image an eerily quite Saffron Hill Rookery (aware picture reversed) - alleged setting for Fagin's Den in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist...
please log in to view this image A John Galt photograph of a Bethnal Green family making shovels from scrap in their meagre back yard
This is the first time I have looked through this thread - thanks to all for posting as it has been very interesting.
please log in to view this image This is the White Lyon, Curzon Street taken in the mid 19th century. In 1800 my great, great, great, great grandfather, Henry Fell, was the licencee. It was coverted back into a home (with the two properties next door) in the last 40 years. It was (and may still be) the home of Amit Bhatia. please log in to view this image In 2012. (That's The Hilton in the background.)
Here's a batch of pictures from 1900... http://londonist.com/london/best-of...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Small world, I saw quite a few bands in there in the 70s, my father-in-law was manager of an electrical goods shop on the corner of Baron's Court Road which was almost opposite the pub in the latter part of the 70s so I'd often pop in the pub with him after he'd closed up in the evening. The lodger who lived above the shop was a David Bowie clone called Zaine Griff who actually recorded an album which Bowie and his producer Tony Visconti worked on. His band Screemer played there. The Stranglers were certainly really raw when they played there but you could see they were going places...
Brighton mods and rockers 1964... please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image please log in to view this image