The London Daily Newsletter Tuesday 25 July

St Charles Square after bombing (1950)
A corner of St Charles Square looking north, just after the Second World War

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.

“Zoot Suits, London” (1948) Edward John Burra was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of postwar black culture in London.

Edward Burra (1905-1976)

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Getting around London with Oyster