These pictures were taken by Flickr user AntyDiluvian during his trip to London in September 1973. The capital city was the first stop in a month-long European tour he and his wife took on their own.
The man wasn't impressed with the food at all. “Much of the food we tried in London — and in England generally — was bland, tasteless, and (in restaurants) overcooked, as we’d been told it would be.” He wrote. “Saying no to it was easy.”
Take a look at London in 1973 through these 30 vibrant pictures below. For more fascinating photographs, take a look at his brilliant Flickr site.
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Bus Queue |
9 Carnaby Street |
Live and Let Die, Piccadilly Circus |
Carnaby Street |
Double-decker bus on route # 11 |
Day view from the London Park Hotel |
Night view from the London Park Hotel |
Man asleep |
Bobbies in Helmets |
Kensington High Street |
Regent's Park |
Train Station Ambulances |
Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park |
Shaftesbury Avenue |
Post Office Tower |
A lunch-hour crowd in Hanover Square |
Entrance to Dean's Yard from Broad Sanctuary |
Beefeater |
Vauxhall Bridge Road |
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese restaurant on Wine Office Court off Fleet Street |
St. Paul's in the Distance |
Lincoln's Inn Fields |
Visitors at the Horse Guards |
Fleet Street |
Smoke |
Picnic above the Regent's Canal |
Mayfair Traffic |
Schoolgirls by The Albert |
Sheakespeare's Head in Canaby Street |
Repent! |