Bombsite Boy

A small boy stands on top of a pile of rubble and broken furniture, collecting items in a wheelbarrow during construction of an adventure playground on derelict land in Notting Hill, West London, circa 1962 Gallery: Post-War London

Aldgate Bus Stop

A queue of people in winter clothes start boarding a bus at a stop outside Aldgate East underground station that serves routes 10, 25 and 32 heading to Whitechapel, Mile End, Bow and Stratford. Women carry large handbags: several people stare at the camera with a weary look; London, circa Spring 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Rear Window

Two young boys play in an abandoned and gutted motor car on a demolition site in London’s East End. One boy stares out of the missing rear window at the viewer: in the background boarded up and empty terraces of WWII bomb-damaged houses sit beside new low-rise blocks of flats; London, circa 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

Tea Tea Tea

An older woman looks at the camera in front of a boarded-up Lyons Tea shop in the East End. She wears a headscarf and a heavy winter coat with winter boots; London, circa Spring 1964 Gallery: Portraits

1960s 1964 B+W bicycle bike black and white boys delivery for sale fun houses kids Lambeth leisure London passenger pavement residential rider road signs Sixties street Swinging Sixties teenagers terrace

Bike Boys

Two teenage boys ride a delivery bike down a terraced residential Lambeth street: one rides the bike and the other sits inside the basket rack, London circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

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

Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Ronnie Scott, London circa 1963

Followed by Ronnie Scott, American jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk carries his saxophone over his shoulder as he descends the exterior stairs of Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club at 39 Gerrard Street, London, circa 1963 Gallery: Music

1960 1960s B+W black and white bystanders Cheltenham Communism hearse Iron Curtain Komis Moscow onlookers Poland police Polish road trip station street Swinging Sixties travel travellers trip vehicle working life

At the Komis

The yellow hearse is parked outside a police station in Poland. Onlookers stare at the vehicle and at the photographer. Circa 1960 Gallery: writings

Françoise Hardy

French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy holds an SLR and stares into the distance under a No Entry sign on New Bond Street in London’s West End, circa early 1964 Gallery: Arts and Culture

1965 Afghan hound American B+W black and white dog fruit and veg stall leisure Manhattan New York City queue street Swinging Sixties

New York Dog

An elderly man with an Afghan hound on a lead buys groceries at a street stall in New York, Manhattan, circa 1965 Gallery: Leisure

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1965 Afghan hound American B+W black and white dog fruit and veg stall leisure Manhattan New York City queue street Swinging Sixties

Pram Petition

Two small girls in prams sit in front of a banner marked Save The L.C.C (London County Council) prior to it being replaced by the GLC (Greater London Council), London circa 1962 Gallery: Political Activism

Sign The Petition

An elderly woman signs the petition to save the L.C.C (London County Council) prior to it being replaced by the GLC (Greater London Council), London circa 1962 Gallery: Political Activism

1960s 1962 B+W black and white counterculture dealer drug abuse drug deal drugs East End hash illegal illicit joints marijuana street Swinging Sixties trade transaction

Marijuana Boys

Two young men conduct a drugs transaction in the street in the East End of London, circa 1962 Gallery: Counterculture

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1960s 1962 B+W black and white counterculture dealer drug abuse drug deal drugs East End hash illegal illicit joints marijuana street Swinging Sixties trade transaction

Save the LCC

A young man signs the petition to save the L.C.C (London County Council) prior to it being replaced by the GLC (Greater London Council), London circa 1962 Gallery: Political Activism

1960s 35mm camera crowd culture education initiative John Hoppy Hopkins London London Free School provocateur street Swinging Sixties underground

London Free School Hoppy

Image © Adam Ritchie Photography, reproduced with kind permission Gallery: timeline

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1960s 35mm camera crowd culture education initiative John Hoppy Hopkins London London Free School provocateur street Swinging Sixties underground

1960s 1961 arts arts and culture B+W black and white culture Egg and Bacon fast food hamburger logo London Lyons modern modernist people scooter sculpture signage street Swinging Sixties Wimpy Bar

Wimpy Bar Art

An exterior shot of passers-by looking at a modern sculpture in the window of a Wimpy Bar in London, circa 1961 Gallery: Arts and Culture

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

1960 1960s activity B+W bags black and white building coats February group hats leisure men outside queue shop street styles sunny Swinging Sixties urban wait winter women

Winter Coat Queue

A crowd of people in winter coats queue on a sunny pavement outside a shop in London, February 1960 Gallery: Leisure

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1960 1960s activity B+W bags black and white building coats February group hats leisure men outside queue shop street styles sunny Swinging Sixties urban wait winter women

1960s 1961 B+W banners black and white constable demonstration London MET Metropolitan Police night people police police constable police officer street streetlight Swinging Sixties working life

Tired Officer

A white male Police Constable with the Metropolitan Police appears exhausted during a demonstration in London, circa 1961. He looks straight at the camera Gallery: Working Life

Five Kids

Four young girls and one male toddler stand in front of a group of adults and watch as the 1962 Aldermaston to London March passes through their village. In the background of the frame other villagers can be seen standing by the roadside, waiting for the marchers to pass Gallery: CND

CND Constructive Service

Young men with a banner that says 'CND Constructive Service' dig holes in a flattened bomb site in London (probably West London/Notting Hill) and chat with onlookers, circa 1962. They are watched by several children Gallery: CND

Two Girls

Two young girls, probably sisters, stand in front of a hedge and watch as the 1962 Aldermaston to London March passes through their village. They wear similar clothes and are both wearing the same cardigan at the same time Gallery: Portraits

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

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

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

Bomb Site Kids 1

Five boys play in the rubble of a West London post-war bomb site, circa 1961. One boy holds a stick and looks to camera Gallery: Leisure

Poison Children

Two men carrying a banner that says 'Nuclear Tests Poison Children - Your Children' walk down a semi-rural street whilst being watched by three small boys in wellington boots, plus a mother and child. Image taken during the 1962 Aldermaston to London march Gallery: CND

Peace News reader

An older white male, weating a trilby and carrying a copy of Peace News, accompanies the 1962 Aldermaston to London march Gallery: CND

Aldermaston to London CND march

Aldermaston to London CND march in London streets, seen from above, circa 1960 Gallery: CND

1960s B+W black and white bomb site boy building child children derelict girl homes leisure London Notting Hill outside play playground playtime relax scavengers sign street Swinging Sixties urban wooden yard

Kids play

Children play on a cleared bomb site and hold up a sign from a shop marked Under Personal Supervision on derelict land in Notting Hill, West London Gallery: Leisure

1960s 1962 activity adults B+W black and white Chelsea Flower Show crowd display event leisure London mass men observers ostentatious pastoral relaxing smart street Swinging Sixties throng view women

Chelsea Flower Show

A crowd of smartly dressed people walk down the street towards the photographer as they near the entrance to the 1962 Chelsea Flower Show Gallery: Leisure

1960s architecture B+W black and white conference employee female flow group infrastructure London male model planning Sixties street Swinging Sixties town planning traffic urban white collar worker working life

Planning conference model

Two white males and a white female make notes at a table containing a scale model of a street that includes traffic lights, a zebra crossing, houses and vehicles Gallery: Working Life

1960s B+W biretta black and white bomb damage Catholic clerical East End elderly flat cap London lorry male post-war priest Sixties street Swinging Sixties traditional uniform worker working class working life

Catholic Priest

A Catholic priest wearing a black biretta talks to an elderly man wearing a flat cap in a bombed-out street in the East End of London: in the background is a GB Hicks Ltd. lorry Gallery: Working Life