Following on from the very popular post 1940s London in stunning high resolution colour, here are three more images taken less than a year later. All three were taken by Ed Kotun.

Click through to see the photographs in high resolution.
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Thank you to Ed Kotun.

“Victory gardens were planted in backyards and on apartment-building rooftops, with the occasional vacant lot “commandeered for the war effort!” and put to use as a cornfield [...]]]>

“Victory gardens were planted in backyards and on apartment-building rooftops, with the occasional vacant lot “commandeered for the war effort!” and put to use as a cornfield or a squash patch. During World War II, sections of lawn were publicly plowed for plots in Hyde Park, London to publicize the movement.”

- Victory Gardens

Image by William Vandivert, from the LIFE Magazine collection.

NB: The specks in the sky of this image are barrage balloons.

Photographs of Allied Forces High Command, London, February 1944.

Photographs of Allied Forces High Command, London, February 1944.

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Images 1-10; 12 by David E. Scherman and drawn from LIFE magazine’s archive.

These images are Autochromes taken by Clifford R. Adams in England in 1928 for National Geographic.

These images are Autochromes taken by Clifford R. Adams in England in 1928 for National Geographic.

“Work at Notting Hill Gate Tube station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters that date from c1956-1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by [...]]]>

“Work at Notting Hill Gate Tube station has recently uncovered these amazing advertising posters that date from c1956-1959 when the station’s lifts were removed and replaced by escalators.”
- Mike Ashworth.

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Thank you very much to Mike Ashworth

London’s Tower Bridge took its name from its proxmity to the Tower of London. Originally chocolate brown, it was painted red, white and blue for the [...]]]>

London’s Tower Bridge took its name from its proxmity to the Tower of London. Originally chocolate brown, it was painted red, white and blue for the Queen’s SIlver Jubilee in 1977.

These pictures, all drawn from the Life Archive, were taken in May 1944, in and around Hyde Park.

These pictures, all drawn from the Life Archive, were taken in May 1944, in and around Hyde Park.

D-Day was less than four weeks away.
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Photographs by Frank Scherschel and Ralph Morse.

“Somewhere between public information film and sensationalised documentary, Arnold Louis Miller’s 1964 film London in the Raw not inadvertently captures the contradiction between the reserved nature of the English people and their conflicted attitudes towards the [...]]]>

“Somewhere between public information film and sensationalised documentary, Arnold Louis Miller’s 1964 film London in the Raw not inadvertently captures the contradiction between the reserved nature of the English people and their conflicted attitudes towards the growing permissive society that was changing rapidly in the post-war years. It’s also an opportunity to legitimately show naked women on the screen”
- The Digital Fix

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Thank you to Simon Parr

This excellent amateur colour film was shot by Lieutenant Sidney Sasson, US Army Signal Corps, Army Pictorial Service. It is drawn from the Imperial War Museum’s Archive.

Watch out for the unorthodox Victory symbol [...]]]>

This excellent amateur colour film was shot by Lieutenant Sidney Sasson, US Army Signal Corps, Army Pictorial Service. It is drawn from the Imperial War Museum’s Archive.

Watch out for the unorthodox Victory symbol at 2:57.