--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Urban Exploration cover: alt: 'City Portrait: London 1940s to 1980' height: 840 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/city-portrait-london-1940s-to-1980/historical-london-photos1.jpg width: 1880 credit: '' date: '2010-09-25T11:35:27Z' description: Today I found about 1400 photos of the historical London, which create an unique insight into London’s street life between 1940 and 1980... tags: - Portraiture - Street Art London - Urban Exploration Photography title: 'City Portrait: London 1940s to 1980' url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/city-portrait-london-1940s-to-1980/ --- # City Portrait: London 1940s to 1980 As you know, I’m currently in London and therefore still on the search for some great impressions of that interesting city, I could show you to complete something like [an unusual city portrait of London](/london/)... Today I found round about [1400 scanned diapositive-photos](http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoveringscot/collections/72157611478813825/) in doveson2008’s “London, England 1940s to 1980” photo-collection on Flickr, which is a massive historically photo-portrait of the UK’s capital! > These are mostly undated red-bordered Kodachrome slides (although some have handwritten dates on which are given when present). I’ve always found these to be very colour faithful, despite the odd cyan shadow here and there. They are my favourite type of any slide, with the best having a richness of detail and quality that’s unbeatable, even despite some darkening over fifty-odd years on some of them. (doveson2008) It’s quite interesting to slide through these old photos with their interesting style and to see these old cars, vintage clothings and so forth... ![historical london photos]() historical london photos Via [spreeblick.com](http://www.spreeblick.com/2010/09/24/london-in-den-funfzigern-und-mehr/)