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All images by Klaus Hiltscher
London, Summer, 1976
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Wow, and I thought London looked horrible *now*. Seemed to be trying to look like New York in those days.
“Seemed to be trying to look like New York in those days.”
I can only laugh at this….
@Calum Are you serious? London was there long before New York! Read up on your history!
Great!
Pic 16… and The Socialist Party are still resident at 52 Clapham High Street!
Pic 3… great shot of two elderly gents making a bee-line for Clockwork Nympho at the Eros Cinema! Now a GAP store.
Great pictures of a grimy run-down London.
These photos don’t show the rubbish…
London in the 70′s was a wonderful city to grow up in. Full of interesting places and fascinating people.It had it’s dirt and grime as every city does BUT also some of the most beautiful parks,gardens and buildings in the world,still does….In many ways London lost a lot of it’s character by the mid 80′s and those of us who were lucky enough to have been around prior to that will always say There was and i guess still is no place like London.
Wow! How the population mix has changed since then! It looks nicer then…
I won’t even bother.
the whole time i was looking at these fabulous pictures, i was thinking that they couldn’t even fathom the idea that one day a woman in springfield missouri in the united states would be lying on her bed, looking at them on a computer. weird. and it also makes me wonder if someone will be doing the same to me one day on some super computer or machine we aren’t even aware of now.
Great! Bags of character – a sadly missed alternative to the safe, corporate, over-designed, bland identikit consumerised city of today.