I found this high resolution picture of London via Digg and it was taken sometime around the 1930s. I really love it. Notice how everyone is wearing the same black and beigh colors and how all the cars are also similar in colors. [Link]
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it looks like you’re looking down Shaftesbury Avenue from Picadilly Circus. I’d say it hasn’t changed much apart from the cars, fashion and blatant cigarette advertising!
Not to mention a palpable absence of people of colour!
It’s beautiful, It looks as if it was taken of a movie set 🙂
1930s, to think of it.. we used to live in mud houses back then 😉
Lots of men, looks like Kuwait
Ah, but they are mostly gay men you see in the picture…looks quintessentially the West End, and it should do too!
1949-1950
1949-1950…those were the heady days of our youth; of an unbridled innocence when yes, please! and cheers, actually meant something, when they didn’t use to punctuate every third sentence with a bugger this, or a bugger that.
(thankfully, the popularity of the f word was
still in its infancy).
I just can’t take my eyes off this vintage picture you have here; love the smell of it to bits.
Oh bring back ,bring back, oh bring back my classy baby to me, to me!
Around a year ago I found a post on a forum with high-res WW1 photos, in colour.
But for now, this is all I could find.
https://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/
I never knew 1949 is in the 30’s…
interesting…