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

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

Walkway Play

A girl bounces a ball as she plays on a walkway outside her flat in a crowded Victorian mansion block in the East End. She is watched by a woman and a toddler and there are three women chatting on the walkway above hers. Laundry hangs from the line, London, circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

Street Life

A young girl in a winter coat and knitted hat pushes a toy pram in front of a boarded-up pub with an empty bottle of fortified wine on the doorstep. An elderly woman carrying a cardboard box walks away from the camera towards a black and white cat, London circa 1964 Gallery: Leisure

Streets in the Sky

A young woman holds a pram containing a baby wearing a bonnet; she looks away from camera at two small children running along an exterior walkway outside a Peabody block of flats in East London. There is washing drying on lines hanging above the walkway railings in front of the flats; London, circa Spring 1964 Gallery: Post-War London

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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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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

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

Browsing for Antiques

A man and a woman look at antiques in a shop window, photographed from inside the premises. There are many ornate antique items in the shop front including sconces, candelabra, clocks and small glass electric chandeliers. There is a handcart visible in the street behind the couple, and several ornate buildings with shops on the ground floor; 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

Group Greeting

An older woman wearing a long coat, fancy hat and a flower in her buttonhole, faces a row of four other older people with their backs to camera who are laughing amongst themselves, with wooden chairs in the foreground, London circa 1963 Gallery: Leisure

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Gala Mitchell

Dressed in black, fashion model and partner of John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins Gala Mitchell sits on a bed in front of a chessboard and looks directly to camera, London circa 1962 Gallery: Portraits

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Washing Line

A middle-aged woman wearing a cardigan and an apron over her dress stands by a washing line with Kinglassie colliery in the background. Fife, Scotland, circa 1963 Gallery: Working Life

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Door-stepping in Frimley and Camberley

An elderly lady wearing glasses, a cardigan and an apron stands at her front door and purses her lips during an interview in Frimley and Camberley, Surrey, circa 1963 Gallery: Portraits

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Susan Penhaligon

Portrait of British actress Susan Penhaligon in a park, wearing a fashionable hat and wrapping her coat around her, circa December 1964 Gallery: Portraits

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Susan Penhaligon

Publicity shot of Susan Penhaligon, British actress, pouting and pointing a gun at the camera, circa December 1964 Gallery: Arts and Culture

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Southbank Show

Two men and a woman look at an artwork during a sculpture exhibition on the Southbank, London, circa 1961 Gallery: Arts and Culture

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Room 19 Security

A woman carrying a folder looks off-camera as she emerges from a door marked 'Room no. 19 Security' during the USSR Industrial Exhibition in London, held at Earl's Court, 07-29 July, 1961 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

Soviet Fashion

A model carrying an open umbrella walks down a catwalk in front of photographers during a fashion show at the USSR Industrial Exhibition in London, held at Earl's Court, 07-29 July, 1961 Gallery: Leisure

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Swedish Glass

A blonde woman wearing glasses holds an engraved glass vase in front of her face during an exhibition featuring Swedish glassware in London, circa 1961 Gallery: Arts and Culture

In Step With Each Other

A woman and a girl walk down a catwalk in front of photographers during a fashion show at the USSR Industrial Exhibition in London, held at Earl's Court, 07-29 July, 1961 Gallery: Arts and Culture

Alexander Calder at The Tate Gallery

A woman points out a sculpture to a baby in a pushchair during the Alexander Calder retrospective show at the Tate Gallery, London, from 04 July to 12 August, 1962 Gallery: Arts and Culture

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Coal Miners Graveyard 1

A woman and small girl look at a grave in the Kinglassie, central Fife mining village cemetery, surrounded by fields, circa 1963 Gallery: writings

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Women in Hats

Two elderly women wearing hats sit beside each other in Kingston, West London, circa 1961. One woman wears glasses and is smoking a cigarette Gallery: Portraits

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Val Wilmer framed

Photographer and journalist on the jazz scene Val Wilmer looks at and holds a 35mm camera, seen through a closed window, circa 1965 Gallery: writings

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Val Wilmer side shot

Photographer and journalist on the jazz scene Val Wilmer looks at and holds a 35mm camera, circa 1965 Gallery: Portraits

Gala Mitchell

Gala Michell holds a cigarette and gazes at the viewer whilst sitting on a bed in a messy bedroom. A man stands in the doorway in the background of the scene Gallery: Portraits

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Elderly Lady

An elderly woman with snowflakes on her coat is photographed during a housing demonstration in Westmoreland Road, Southwark, during the freezing winter of 1963 Gallery: Political Activism

Rocket Science 2

During the 1962 Festival of Labour in Battersea Park, a float takes part in a parade. The float is titled 'Designing a great future - Designing a Great Britain' and has people dressed as scientists and astronauts working at draughting tables, as well as a futuristically-styled rocket ship. The float is passing Labour Party leaders, seen from the back Gallery: Political Activism

Rocket Science

During the 1962 Festival of Labour in Battersea Park, a float takes part in a parade. The float is titled 'Designing a great future - Designing a Great Britain' and has people dressed as scientists and astronauts working at draughting tables, as well as a futuristically-styled rocket ship Gallery: Leisure