These images show how Britain has been altered almost beyond recognition in a little over a generation when compared to pictures of St Ives from the 50s and 60s, saved by collector Martin Snelling.

Vintage Everyday: 50 colour photographs capture life in England of the early 1950s

England 1957, Blue Bell show girls

Back in The Land Of Hope And Glory where I now reside (as opposed to The Land That Style Forgot where I was born), the sun is shining and we have a long, hot Diamond Jubilee summer on the horizon. I've been known to doze away many a pleasant hour lazing on a sunny afternoon in Kensington Gardens. Kensington is such a beautiful part of London and its narrow back alleys still remind me of a more innocent era, sadly now confined to the nostalgic mists of history books. On one of my many charity…

London transport RT1121 takes on a group of ypung school children whilst on route 125 in Southgate sometime in 1949. You do not see queues like this today at bus stops !

Charing Cross Road - St Giles Circus 1950s

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Discovered in a photographic agency’s archives, this collection shows a world which moved at an entirely different pace.

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