Vintage photographs depicting everyday life in the U.K during the 1960s_Lap

These fascinating were taken by photographer David Ayres that documented everyday life of England from the 1960s.

Southsea Beach, 1964

Shop window  at Plymouth shopping centre, 1965

The Cenotaph, December 1965

 Torpoint Ferry, June 1965

Bond’s, Preston, 1966

Central Pier, Blackpool, 1966

Cheapside Stalls, 1966

Cheapside, Preston, 1966

Cudworth Street, Wigan, 1966

Friargate, Preston, 1966

Frozen park pond, probably Mesnes park in Wigan, 1966

Ice cream queue, Preston 1966

Ivy Bridge, Avenham Park, Preston, 1966

Lewis’s, Blackpool, spring 1966

Mesnes Park in Wigan, 1966

North Pier, Blackpool, 1966

Preston bus station, 1966

Preston Harris Museum, 1966

Preston market place, 1966

Preston Market, 1966

Preston Market, 1966

River Ribble, Preston, 1966

Sessions House and Cenotaph, 1966

South Pier, Blackpool, 1966

St George’s Shopping Centre, Preston, 1966

St George’s Shopping Centre, Preston, 1966

Street scene of Preston, 1966

 The market stalls against the Sessions House in Preston, 1966

 Winter landscape with houses, Wigan, 1966

Crowds Christmas shopping under the decorations in Haymarket, Sheffield, December 1967

Football in Graves Park, Sheffield, December 1967

Paradise Square, Sheffield, December 1967

 The junction of Meadowhead and Abbey Lane in Sheffield at night, December 1967

Albert Road from Aggie Weston’s, Plymouth, 1968

 Birds on a bike, Sheffield, 1968

Dingles in Plymouth, 1968

Exeter Street, Plymouth, 1968

Hoe Road, Plymouth, 1968

Looe beach in the fog, 1968

Looe River, 1968

 Lostwithiel Silver Band playing in Looe, 1968

Mayflower Steps, Plymouth, 1968

Notte Street, Plymouth, 1968

On the way trip to Looe, 1968

People clamouring to buy daffodils on a rainy day, Sheffield, 1968

Playing on Looe beach, 1968

Playing on Looe beach, 1968

Playing on Looe beach, 1968

Rainy day in Sheffield, 1968

Scrapyard, Plymouth, 1968

Sheffield in the sun, 1968

Sheffield market, 1968

 Somewhere down the Barbican in Plymouth, 1968

The Hispaniola from the top of the Mayflower steps, Plymouth, 1968

The miners’ row of terraced houses in Unstone, North Derbyshire, 1968

The Navy, down the Barbican in Plymouth, 1968

The Salvation Army band march down Albert Road, Devonport, 1968

 Victor Value, Portsmouth, 1968

 Weymouth, circa summer 1968

 The Beauty Pageant at the Barlow Well dressing ceremony, South Dronfield, August 1969

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