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 |
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| 9 Carnaby Street |
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| Live and Let Die, Piccadilly Circus |
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| Carnaby Street |
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| Double-decker bus on route # 11 |
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| Day view from the London Park Hotel |
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| Night view from the London Park Hotel |
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| Man asleep |
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| Bobbies in Helmets |
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| Kensington High Street |
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| Regent’s Park |
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| Train Station Ambulances |
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| Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park |
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| Shaftesbury Avenue |
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| Post Office Tower |
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| A lunch-hour crowd in Hanover Square |
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| Entrance to Dean’s Yard from Broad Sanctuary |
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| Beefeater |
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| Vauxhall Bridge Road |
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| Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese restaurant on Wine Office Court off Fleet Street |
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| St. Paul’s in the Distance |
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| Lincoln’s Inn Fields |
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| Visitors at the Horse Guards |
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| Fleet Street |
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| Smoke |
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| Picnic above the Regent’s Canal |
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| Mayfair Traffic |
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| Schoolgirls by The Albert |
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| Sheakespeare’s Head in Canaby Street |
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