Boy on Wall

An example of an Edition Print of a small boy who lies on top of a wall and stares at the camera in West London, circa 1961. A row of terraced houses and a church can be seen in the background. The print is authenticated by the Estate of the photographer, John 'Hoppy' Hopkins, and features an embossed recto Estate authentication edition stamp in the bottom left corner inside the white border and an archivally-stable inked verso stamp containing the full edition and authentication details on the reverse. The print is available in three sizes and an edition of #20. Gallery: Edition Prints

Scaffolding Boards

Shot from below, a labourer perches on scaffolding boards and rebars that stick out of a poured concrete column on a building site: another labourer is on a platform above him and there is a crane in the background of the shot, London circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

Rebars Floor

Two labourers chat briefly whilst a third takes heavy bolt-cutters to a grid of welded steel reinforcing rods on the floor of a building being constructed in London. In the background of the image are low-rise blocks of flats and on-site cranes, London circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

Rebars Cage

On a building site in London a labourer in a cloth cap holds a grid of welded rebars upright in the foreground of the image whilst three men in suits confer in the background. London circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

Pouring Concrete

On a building site a labourer with a pipe stops for a chat in the foreground whilst a concrete floor is poured and levelled with a wooden plank behind him. Steel reinforcing rods criss-cross the image and in the background are Victorian terraced houses, London circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

Labourers

A crowd of labourers on a building site stand around and chat at the end of a working day, London circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

Labourer Chat

On a building site two labourers converse: one man wears a hard hat and a checked shirt, the other has on a cloth cap, wears a white vest and holds a wooden baton. A third man drives a vehicle across the site behind them and there are barely visible Victorian terraced houses in the background, London circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

Foundations

On a post-war reconstruction site in London, labourers work on the lower ground foundations of a large building under construction. In the foreground a man moves a pile of bricks: Victorian terraced houses on a street can be seen in the background of the image. London circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

3 Women and A Baby

A middle-aged woman in a flowery tabard sweeps the street outside a residential building: two other women stand nearby. The older one holds food in a paper wrapper whilst the younger woman is more fashionably dressed and has a baby in a pram. London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Smiling Crowd

A crowd of people watching firemen deal with a burning residential building smile at the spectacle as the firemen bring the situation under control, Gloucester Terrace, Bayswater, London W2 circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Roof Reflections

The roof of Paddington Railway Station is reflected in the shiny black exterior of several London Taxi Cabs waiting in line for passengers. A train carriage, platform numbers and an advertisement for the Black and White Minstrel show can just be seen in the background. London circa 1962 Gallery: Post-War London

Facade Only

A new hi-rise residential tower block constructed by Wates can be seen behind bomb-damaged shops on the Harrow Road. All that is left of the shops are the façades and the signage. Two young boys walk on the pavement in the foreground and a person on a scooter rides past, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Doorstep Trikes

A young boy in winter clothes stands outside a terraced house with missing railings. The front door to the property is open and two trikes plus several toys and an empty milk bottle can be seen on the steps leading to the door, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

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Doorstep Pram

A pram sits beside a covered scooter outside a four-storey terraced house with a mandala-printed cloth in the window, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Camden Town Tube

An elderly man waits for a different train as a woman walks along the platform towards the street level exit at Camden Town Underground Station. A tube train with the doors open has a few passengers on board and the platform walls are covered with advertising posters. London circa 1962 Gallery: Post-War London

Bystanders Watch

A crowd of onlookers watch intently as firemen deal with a burning residential building on Gloucester Terrace, Bayswater, London W2 circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Public Convenience

Several men in suits exit a Men’s Lavatory on a busy Fleet Street in central London. A man with a luxuriant handlebar moustache looks directly to camera as cars, lorries and buses fill the road and pedestrians rush about their business, London circa 1962 Gallery: Post-War London

Bedsitter 2

A middle-aged woman sits on a iron-framed single bed with a young child in her lap in front of peeling and dilapidated wallpaper. There is laundry hanging across the room and in the foreground a teenager in a flowery tabard irons fabric on a very damaged ironing board, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Bedsitter

A middle-aged woman sits on a iron-framed single bed with two children in front of peeling and dilapidated wallpaper. The younger child is on her lap whilst the older girl looks off camera, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

1960s 1964 B+W black and white erotic girls man non-stop passer-by pedestrian performers photographs post-war revue seductive sex work Soho spectacular strip joint strippers striptease Swinging Sixties window women

Spectacular Striptease

A man walks past a striptease joint, looking behind him with a grumpy expression. There are photographs of the performers in seductive poses in the window, below an illuminated sign which reads ‘Spectacular Striptease Non-stop Revue’, Soho, London, circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Heavy Load

A man in a cloth cap and tattered suit carries a heavy sack in front of scaffolding and weighing machinery on a building site, England circa 1963 Gallery: Post-War London

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Blakey Morris

An elderly man sorts through rubbish in front of the Blakey Morris Wallpapers and Paints factory in south London, circa 1960 Gallery: Post-War London

1960s 1964 B+W black and white coats doorstep hats house London motor car older post-war residential Sixties street stripped for parts Swinging Sixties thieves traditional vehicle vintage winter women working class

Stripped Motor

Two older women in hats and winter coats stand on the doorstep of a house in a residential street, with a motor car that has been stripped for parts in the foreground, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

1960s 1964 B+W black and white boy houses London pavement post-war pushchair residential road Sixties street suitcase Swinging Sixties terrace walking winter woman

Suitcase

A young boy and a middle-aged woman, both wearing winter clothes, walk in the road in a residential street: the woman pushes a pushchair with a suitcase inside, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

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1960s 1964 B+W black and white boy houses London pavement post-war pushchair residential road Sixties street suitcase Swinging Sixties terrace walking winter woman

Kitchen Table

A woman stands at a sink and two boys sit at a kitchen table and one boy holds a toddler. Harrow Road, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Linoleum

A smiling toddler sits on the floor and pulls at damaged linoleum whilst a boy looks on and a woman stands in front of a coal fire. Harrow Road, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Cramped Bedroom

A man stands and two boys sit on the bed in a tiny room, with a bicycle and a pile of clothes in the foreground. Harrow Road, London, circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Bedsit Dinner

A middle-aged woman in a cramped bedsit wears her coat to keep warm as she eats her dinner at a small table in between her bed and the sofa, with a television in front of the window, Harrow Road, London circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Pimlico Road

A group of men stand and chat by several public telephone boxes on Pimlico Road, with stores and the offices of the Grosvenor Estate in the background, London circa 1960/61 Gallery: Post-War London

Old and New 2

Two older men rest on benches in an open space with Victorian terraced buildings, new-build tower blocks of flats and a Lyons Swiss Rolls delivery van in the background, London 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

LCC Improvement

A row of derelict buildings with smashed windows stands behind a rubble-filled construction site: in the foreground a sign states ‘L.C.C ELEPHANT AND CASTLE IMPROVEMENT’, LONDON CIRCA 1960 Gallery: Post-War London

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Lambeth Walk

Two boys in suits walk along an alleyway between closely-packed terraced housing for the working class in Lambeth, South London, circa 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

Labouring

Two labourers working on a building site carry a long metal strut with a rope: one wears a boiler suit and the other is in jeans and a polo shirt. There are other labourers working behind vertical rebars in the background, London circa 1963 Gallery: Post-War London

Kid’s Cricket

Two boys in shorts play cricket in the road, with working-class terraced housing on both sides and an industrial building sited on Ebenezer Street in the background, East London circa 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

1960s 1961 B+W black and white bomb damage buildings churches damaged dangerous derelict dereliction destruction dilapidation Harrow Road housing London outside post-war street Swinging Sixties tenements terraced

Harrow Road

An aerial view of Harrow Road, including tenement buildings, an undeveloped bomb-site and several churches in the background, London 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

Hard Hat

A man wearing a hard hat carries a bucket as he walks through a pile of sand on a building site, with scaffolding in the background, England circa 1963 Gallery: Post-War London

Hammersmith Flyover

A view from on top of the partly-built Cromwell Road extension of the Hammersmith flyover as it is under construction by Marples Ridgeway, London 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

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Docklands Street

A deserted street in London’s Docklands area: metal walkways above ground link industrial warehouse buildings along the river Thames, London circa 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

Mum’s Shoes

A group of children play in a London street which still has a blockade left over from the Second World War; one girl is wearing her mother’s fancy shoes, 10 April 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

1960s 1961 B+W black and white boarded-up brick broken damaged derelict enigmatic Good Pull Up For Carmen imagination London message outside paint post-war railings sign Swinging Sixties urban wall

Good Pull Up For Carmen

Behind broken railings a sign on a boarded up window reads Good Pull Up For Carmen, London circa 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

Building Site

Men in hard hats and cloth caps labour on a building site, overseen by two men in suits and ties, London circa 1963 Gallery: Post-War London

Treasure Hunt

Two young boys collect scrap metal and play amongst the debris in a pile of damaged furniture in a boarded-off bomb site in a London street, 10 April 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

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F A Albin and Sons

The premises of F. A. Albin and Sons, Undertakers, can be seen behind a destroyed building in Bermondsey, south London, 10 April 1961 Gallery: Post-War London

Lockstep Ladies

Two older women in hats and long coats carry shopping bags and link arms in a residential Lambeth street, in front of dustbins and milk bottles on the doorstep of house number 24, London circa 1964 Gallery: Portraits

1945 Christmas December England Father Christmas history John Hoppy Hopkins letter list post-war Santa toys tradition

Letter to Santa by John Hoppy Hopkins on 23 December 1945, aged 8

Letter to Santa by John Hoppy Hopkins on 23 December 1945, aged 8 Gallery: timeline

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1945 Christmas December England Father Christmas history John Hoppy Hopkins letter list post-war Santa toys tradition

1960s 1963 B+W black and white bomb disposal British Army England event field insignia male non-commissioned officer post-war rank Swinging Sixties tattoo unexploded uniform UXB working life WWII

UXB NCO

A non-commissioned officer of the British Army leans forward with his hands on his knees as he looks to the side, during a possible unexploded bomb event in an English field, circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

Frimley and Camberley labourers

Two male labourers in donkey jackets pose by their wheelbarrow on a post-war housing estate in Frimley and Camberley, Surrey, circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

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The Dole Queue

A woman on a bench is surrounded by men queueing at a Men's Unemployment Benefits Office counter, London, circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

1960s 1961 activity B+W black and white bomb boy children church clearing destruction gang group imagination leisure Notting Hill outside play post-war rubble site street Swinging Sixties urban wall West London

Boy On Wall 1

A small boy lies on top of a wall and stares at the camera in West London, circa 1961. A row of terraced houses and a church can be seen in the background Gallery: Portraits

Bomn Site Kids 3

Five small boys clamber up the sides of a West London Second World War bomb crater, circa 1961. A row of terraced houses can be seen in the background, probably in Notting Hill Gallery: Leisure

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Bomb Site Kids 2

Four small boys laugh as they throw rocks across a post-war West London bomb site, circa 1961. An entire side of a street has been demolished, leaving a large play area Gallery: Leisure