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  • Two young men dressed in office suits casually stuff their lunches during a hot lunchtime break in the Broadgate Estate in the City of London. Both with legs across knees, the lads in their 20s sit on a bench beneath a tree alongside the statue of a traditional gardener, slightly bent and equipped with hoe and wearing a wastecoat, hobnailed boots and flat cap, an iconic salt-of-the-earth workman. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-exhausted man whose life has been spent working the honest land.  The English social divide is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus the youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
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  • Two 1960s housewives and mothers stand in sunshine on the front porch of their council house. The two women stand smiling for a portrait by an amateur photographer in 1963. Alongside them is a hanging basket of flowers that is suspended in the porch. This post-war image whows a confidence and prosperity among the working class and the ladies wear bright, white clothing that is well-washed and laundered at a time when a growing disposable income was an asset to families being offered domestic products to help improve their everyday lives. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family03-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • A Ford Anglia is parked in an empty road and homegrown beds of dahlias grow in the front garden of a council house in the early 1960s. Looking through the clean window we see net curtains (drapes) and in the foreground are the flowers showing a prospering post-war era. The car is the only one parked in the road at a time when car ownership was still to become popular among the working and middle-classes is estates like this. The colours are brilliantly reproduced and recorded by Kodachrome film by an amateur photographer in 1963. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family02-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • Amid post-War inner-city concrete, an elderly man struggles up a slope in Birmingham’s infamous Bull Ring, a development of open-air market stalls, offices and a new indoor shopping centre, the first indoor city-centre shopping centre in the UK. It symbolised everything horrid about architecture in a modern Britain. The words ‘Unspoilt by progress’ seems to be a statement of extreme  falsehood, a lie for those using this grim feature of modernism. The market began in medieval 1154 but it was its 1964 regeneration that gave it a reputation of an oppressive urban monstrosity though it  was considered the height of modernity. But higher rents meant traders turned away and the public shunned subways and escalators which stopped working regularly. Much disliked by the public it contributed to the popular conception that Birmingham was a ‘concrete jungle’.
    birmingham_concrete-25-06-1997_1.jpg
  • The facade of Dawson’s Heights, Dulwich, London, United Kingdom. Built between 1968 and 1972, Dawson’s Heights was designed by Kate Macintosh as part of the social housing project to clear out London’s slums. It is known as the ‘Italian hill town in Dulwich.
    UK-London-Dawson-Heights-0563.jpg
  • The facade of Dawson’s Heights, Dulwich, London, United Kingdom. Built between 1968 and 1972, Dawson’s Heights was designed by Kate Macintosh as part of the social housing project to clear out London’s slums. It is known as the ‘Italian hill town in Dulwich.
    UK-London-Dawson-Heights-0560.jpg
  • The facade of Dawson’s Heights, Dulwich, London, United Kingdom. Built between 1968 and 1972, Dawson’s Heights was designed by Kate Macintosh as part of the social housing project to clear out London’s slums. It is known as the ‘Italian hill town in Dulwich.
    UK-London-Dawson-Heights-0565.jpg
  • A lady smiles in a portrait near dodgem cars at the seaside during summer time in the early 1960s. The happy woman smiles to the film camera in a portrait on Southend Pier and recorded on a film camera by a relative, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family16-20-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A portrait of a mother and teenage son in a public park during summer time in the early 1960s. The portrait has been recorded on a film camera by an amateur photographer in 1961. The young man stands with his arm on his mum's shoulder in this public park in Essex. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family15-15-03-1961_1.jpg
  • A mother holds her 4 year-old son with the family Ford Anglia during summer time in the early 1960s. There are tents behind them in the distance, a summer camping site in Essex. Both doors of the car are open for this portrait, a summer's day in an era of innocence when car ownership was still to become popular among the working and middle-classes is estates like this. The colours are brillianty reproduced and was recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family13-28-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A mother and two teenage girls stand among heather in country field during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing in the naturally-growing heather in afternoon sunshine, the women and the young child are looking at the plants that they've just picked to show the youngster. Polka dots seem to be the fashion in this picture recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1960. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family11-28-08-1960_1.jpg
  • A mother holds her 3 year-old son during summer time in the early 1960s. Looking up from a low angle, see see the mother and her young son in sunlight, made dark by underexposure of the film, recorded on a camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The mast and rigging of a small boat can be seen behind so they must be at the seaside, near from where they live in Southend-on-Sea in Essex. The sky is a deep blue and the shapes on their heads almost merge with the background. It was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family10-12-07-1962_1.jpg
  • A young woman holds the hand of her 5 year-old brother during a visit to London zoo in the early 1960s. Looking closely at a tame llama that has been hitched up to a harness and about to pull children for a short ride around the enclosures of London's zoo in Regents Park. It was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964.The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family09-13-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A family stand at railings watching shipping on the River Thames at Gravesend during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing at some railings, the two women and the young boy are looking out towards the River Thames at the Kent town just a few miles outside London. Here is shipping that is taking cargo to the capital in an era when the river still a main artery for goods brought from across the world into London. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family06-13-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A young boy of about 5 years-old sits in the family back garden in the early 1960s. The small lad sits with an embarrassed expression on his face, a brick wall behind him with summer garden plants growing nearby. The boy has blonde hair and a striped t-shirt and was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family04-13-07-1964_1.jpg
  • Homegrown beds of dahlias grow in the front garden of a council house in the early 1960s. The flowers are fine specimens of this species. Prospering, tall and healthy in summer sunshine in this front garden in Southend-in-Sea in Essex, England, their reds are brilliantly reproduced and recorded by Kodachrome film by an amateur photographer in 1963. Net curtains (drapes) can be seen in the windows and the green grass is clipped and mown to reflect the obsessive nature of the resident and plant grower. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family01-20-04-1963_1.jpg
  • Family and friends sit on a rocking horse in a playground during summer time in the early 1960s. The portrait has been recorded on a film camera by the boy at the front's father, an amateur photographer in 1961. A man is holding on tight to a black and white pet sheepdog and two mothers chat on the right of the picture in this public park in Essex. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family14-15-03-1961_1.jpg
  • A mother of 42 years of age holds her 1 year-old son among heather in country field during summer time in the early 1960s. Standing in naturally-growing heather in afternoon sunshine, the mum and the young child are looking at plants, her polka dot dress seems to be the fashion in this picture recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1960. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family12-28-08-1960_1.jpg
  • A mother holds the hand of her 5 year-old son during a visit to London zoo in the early 1960s. Looking frightened and upset, the small lad walks hand in hand with his mum, away from where there are scary wild animals in cages but still a frightening experience to a little person. The mother is smartly-dresed for the family day out to the capital and its zoo in Regents Park. It was was recorded on film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family08-13-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A young boy of about 5 years-old stands on a seaside bridge as an older man walks past in the early 1960s. Seen from a low angle, we look up at the small boy standing on some steps of a bridge on the seafront at Southend-on-Sea in Essex, recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family07-13-08-1962_1.jpg
  • A family walk along a town's side street during summer time in the early 1960s. A small boy is accompanied by his older sister who points at something in the distance, his mother wearing pearls behind and a family friend who holds his hand as the walk towards the town's new shopping precinct. The picture was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
    60s_family05-13-08-1962_1.jpg
  • Wearing braces, striped shirt and sitting on a block, a young lawyer studies a legal book during a mid-morning break in the Inner Temple in the historic City of London. The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is one of the four Inns of Court around the Royal Courts of Justice which may call members to the Bar and so entitle them to practise as barristers. The Temple was occupied in the twelfth century by the Knights Templar, who gave the area its name but was heavily bombed during the Blitz of 1940-1 and the reclining marble memorial to predecessor, John Hiccocks who held the office of Master in Chancery between 1702 and 1723 (d 1726) behind the young law student is marked by the partially-demolished Goldsmiths Chambers on the north side of Temple Church where Hiccocks is buried. An assortment of potted red plants add to an otherwise dark courtyard
    city_resting02-16-1993_1.jpg
  • Street art portrait of local and much loved writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah on 31st December 2020 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah is a British writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. He was included in The Times list of Britains top 50 post-war writers in 2008.
    20201231_benjamin zephaniah_001.jpg
  • Viv the spiv after clocking off work as a 1940s wartime spiv character. London, UK. n the United Kingdom, the word spiv is slang for a type of petty criminal who deals in illicit, typically black market, goods. The word was particularly used during the Second World War and in the post-war period when many goods were rationed due to shortages.
    20141211_viv the spiv_A.jpg
  • Viv the spiv after clocking off work as a 1940s wartime spiv character. London, UK. n the United Kingdom, the word spiv is slang for a type of petty criminal who deals in illicit, typically black market, goods. The word was particularly used during the Second World War and in the post-war period when many goods were rationed due to shortages.
    20141211_viv the spiv_B.jpg
  • Seen from an aerial viewpoint which gives a perspective of deserted housing and empty roads, Jill Parmeter plays post woman. She is a resident of the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. Delivering her own newsletter from door-to-door, she crosses Netherton Street and Tinten Lane to post her local news to residents and friends. The roads are empty of cars- nor is there anyone else to talk to. It is as if this community has vanished, leaving her alone. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
    poundbury06-07-06_2003.jpg
  • A floral tribute lies in front of the 7-ton block of Portland Stone which forms the centrepiece of the John F Kennedy Memorial on 20th August 2020 in Runnymede, United Kingdom. The National Trust has announced that the Kennedy Memorial Landscape, comprising the memorial, steps of individuality and seats of contemplation dedicated to the 35th President of the United States, is one of twenty post-war landscapes added to the National Heritage List for England, receiving Grade II-listed protected status.
    MK-20200821-Kennedy-Memorial-Landsca...jpg
  • Striking a light in an outdoor café, a young businessman puts a match to his cigarette as a colleague talks in Frankfurt.  Cupping his hand over the lit end, against a shrill wind, the man inhales the nicotine-rich smoke to enjoy another cigarette. On the table in front, an empty glass of German Pilsener, its froth still clinging to the sides of the glass showing that this otherwise healthy gentleman is abusing his body with the addictive tobacco and the thirst-quenching taste of fine beer that has a high percentage of alcohol and rich in carbohydrates. He is smartly dresses, with cufflinks, a good watch and neat hair. In the background are other drinkers and their glasses on tables at this sociable street corner in the city’s financial district, a symbolic powerhouse of economic recovery that Germany built in the post-war era.
    german_smoker-16-05-2000_1.jpg
  • Three figures by artist Elisabeth Frink at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Frink was a leading figure in British sculpture. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1949-1953 and was part of the post-war group of British sculptors, which included Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi, who became known as the Geometry of Fear school.
    yorkshire_sculpture_park01-28-09-201...jpg
  • Tourist crowds walk along London's Southbank beneath the Millennium Wheel. I the background is the giant ferris wheel called the Millennium Wheel whose every rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning the capsules that hold a family or group of fare-paying passengers in pods travel at a stately 26cm per second. Since opening in 2000, it has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.5 million visitors annually while the modernist Festival Hall, which was built as part of the post-war Festival of Britain of 1951 though altered in 1964 is a popular landmark for the London visitor.
    southbank_tourists02-12-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Tourist passengers enjoy the ride in the pods of the  London eye tourist attraction on the Southbank. The Union Jack flag flies in a stiff breeze at the bottom of the picture with the Eye in the background. The London Eye's  rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning the capsules that hold a family or group of fare-paying passengers in pods travel at a stately 26cm per second, or 0.9km (0.6 miles) per hour. Since opening in 2000, an average of 3.75 million visitors have experienced London’s most-visited attraction each year while the modernist Festival Hall, which was built as part of the post-war Festival of Britain of 1951 though altered in 1964.
    london_eye01-03-02-2014.jpg
  • Workmen put the finishing touches to a new pavement project below a movie poster for the film Hop. As pedestrians pass-by, the workmen bend to cut the last stone within the protection of wire construction fencing that keeps the public out during this health and safety hazard. The renewal is part of the redevelopment at Elephant & Castle in south London, a notoriously bad example of post-war urban planning. The clean paving stones are untouched by inner-city feet and the landscape pristine. The film Hop is a CGI Universal Pictures production.
    roadworks_movie01-22-03-2011.jpg
  • Seen from behind as they stop at dotted give-way lines on this empty road junction, we see a strange perspective of deserted housing and empty roads, Jen West and her elderly wheelchair-bound mother Margaret - both residents of the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. As if they are pedestrians about cross a busy highway, it is an incongruous scene of irony. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
    poundbury05-07-06_2003.jpg
  • On its regular morning walk and wearing a matching red coat as its owner, a small dog exercises in Holmead Road in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. As the mutt looks at the camera, the man waits for him to stop sniffing around before moving on. The pair stand on crunchy gravel, a deterrent for would-be thieves who might be tempted to this small town where middle-class residents live. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
    poundbury04-07-06_2003.jpg
  • A secure fence deters young children from entering and playing in the new (but as yet unused) playground in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. The new swings and mini-roundabout can be seen through the wire in the foreground while the safe surfaces of wood-chip ensures the little ones are protected from falls on to hard surfaces. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
    poundbury03-07-06_2003.jpg
  • Showing a Neighbourhood Watch sticker to discourage crime, a map and various by-laws, the Resident's Association Information Board is attached to a brick wall on Middlemarsh Street in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. The wooden case needs treating and the glass needs wiping but there is a feeling of security and of a close and friendly community. Poundbury is the visionary model village that Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
    poundbury01-07-06_2003.jpg
  • Concert-goers on the balcony of the a 2,900 seat concert, dance and talks venue the South Bank's Royal Festival Hall, take an opportunity to see fine views of the River Thames and the rest of London's panorama before returning inside for their cultural event. From the top of this 1950s building (constructed for the fair of 1952) they can also look across to the giant ferris wheel called the BA London Eye whose every rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning the capsules that hold a family or group of fare-paying passengers in pods travel at a stately 26cm per second, or 0.9km (0.6 miles) per hour. Since opening in 2000, an average of 3.75 million visitors have experienced London’s most-visited attraction each year while the modernist Festival Hall, which was built as part of the post-war Festival of Britain of 1951 though altered in 1964.
    london_eye-06-04-2000.jpg
  • As a young office worker sleeps incongruously on a marble pavement, a street sweeper nearby brushes away litter with a small dustpan. The manual labourer wears blue overalls, yellow gloves and keys in his back pocket while the man in a wastecoat and smart trousers and polished slip-on shoes appears to be fast asleep, his fingers across his chest. This scene suggests the social divisions of the working man: Of the young, educated post-war generation whose opportunities have afforded them a faster lifestyle, far removed from that of the physically-demanding job of a man whose life has been spent cleaning and sweeping. English social differences is clearly represented here as the harshness of the manual labourer versus a lazy youth of today, seen in the middle of the modern city.
    city_resting03-16-1997_1.jpg
  • Aerial view of south London borough of Lambeth looking from Camberwell towards St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster. Tall tower blocks and wide estates occupy the skyline of this modern metropolis amid older Victorian and post-war homes. St Paul's itself rises most prominantly in the distance, its self-supporting dome designed by Sir Christopher Wren is one of the capital's most recognisable sights of London, with its dome, framed by the spires of Wren's City churches, dominating the skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet (111 m) high, it was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962, and its dome is also among the highest in the world. In terms of area, St Paul's is the second largest church building in the United Kingdom after Liverpool Cathedral.
    aerial_lambeth06-22-09-2012_1.jpg
  • The 7-ton block of Portland Stone which forms the centrepiece of the John F Kennedy Memorial is pictured on 20th August 2020 in Runnymede, United Kingdom. The National Trust has announced that the Kennedy Memorial Landscape, comprising the memorial, steps of individuality and seats of contemplation dedicated to the 35th President of the United States, is one of twenty post-war landscapes added to the National Heritage List for England, receiving Grade II-listed protected status.
    MK-20200821-Kennedy-Memorial-Landsca...jpg
  • Two of three figures by artist Elisabeth Frink at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Frink was a leading figure in British sculpture. She studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1949-1953 and was part of the post-war group of British sculptors, which included Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi, who became known as the Geometry of Fear school.
    yorkshire_sculpture_park03-28-09-201...jpg
  • Tourist crowds walk along London's Southbank beneath the Millennium Wheel. I the background is the giant ferris wheel called the Millennium Wheel whose every rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning the capsules that hold a family or group of fare-paying passengers in pods travel at a stately 26cm per second. Since opening in 2000, it has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom with over 3.5 million visitors annually while the modernist Festival Hall, which was built as part of the post-war Festival of Britain of 1951 though altered in 1964 is a popular landmark for the London visitor.
    southbank_tourists01-12-05-2015_1.jpg
  • Emma and Martin are a young professional couple living in the experimental community village of Poundbury, Dorset, England. Sitting in their landscaped rear garden the married couple have their portrait taken against a high concrete wall that serves as their property's back boundary. The roofs of neighbouring homes appear over this partition and young tree saplings are fastened to a stake. Poundbury is the visionary model village that the Charles, Prince of Wales sought to develop in 1993 as a successful and pioneering town near Dorchester, built on land owned by his own Duchy of Cornwall, challenging otherwise poor post-war trends in town planning and to some extent following the New Urbanism concept from the US except that the design influences are European.
    poundbury02-07-06_2003.jpg
  • The old London Road Fire Station along Fairfield Street on the 10th August 2018 in Manchester in the United Kingdom. The London Road Fire Station building was given Grade II* listed status in 1974, and served Manchester for most of the 20th century, including two world wars and the uncertain post war years. The building was vacated by the Fire Service in 1986 and most of the building has been empty ever since.
    Manchester-10-8-18-04207.jpg
  • British writer Colin Thubron in London. Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007. He is a Fellow and, as of 2010, President of the Royal Society of Literature.
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  • British writer Colin Thubron in London. Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007. He is a Fellow and, as of 2010, President of the Royal Society of Literature.
    Colin Thubron.jpg
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