A Stroll Around a Neon-Lit Soho in 1977
Cranbourn Street, off Leicester Square We don’t know who took these found photos but probably by an American tourist who went for a late evening stroll around the southern end of Soho in 1977....
View ArticleEvocative Photos of London’s West End in the 1950s
A keen photographer since childhood, Allan Hailstone’s beautiful images are a tribute to London of the 1950s. Fogs, Soho at night, the remnants of St Giles, lost theatres … Here is a taste of how...
View ArticleClub Americana and the Flamingo All-Nighter on Wardour Street, 1952-1965
In March 1962, a month after Billy Fury had dismissed them as his backing band – he felt they were ‘too jazzy’ – Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames started a three-year residency at The Flamingo Club....
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