Vibrant Vintage Color Photos of London in 1973

   
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.
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

 

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