The London Daily Newsletter Monday 24 July

Exmoor Street (1950)
Photographed just after the Second World War, looking north along Exmoor Street.

A bomb had demolished many of the houses of St Charles Square, in the right foreground. The western end of Rackham Street can be seen behind on the right. The gasometer which dominated the area, survived the war, finally demolished in the 1980s. With all the bomb damage meaning unhabitable housing, the streets are largely empty of people.

TUM Book Club: Old Covent Garden
The magic of the old Covent Garden Market is evoked through Clive Boursnell’s photographs, taken over the course of numerous visits to Covent Garden in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Clive Boursnell, then a young photographer, shot thousands of photographs of the old Covent Garden, documenting the end of an era before the markets moved out of central London. Boursnell captured these last days of the market over a period of six years, from 1968 until the market’s closure, in a series of beautiful portraits of the feisty life of a city institution.

Dewhurst Road, Hammersmith Artist: Adam Raven (1952–2006)

Hammersmith Library

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