Incredible Photos of The British Red Phone Box Graveyard on The Edge of London
Ian T (@Officially_IT)
London’s iconic red telephone boxes, once a staple for communication, have now become more of a backdrop for tourists’ photos, symbolizing their visit to England. With the advent of mobile phones, these boxes lost their original purpose and many fell into disrepair. Continue reading »
Hyperrealistic Art of Callum Eaton, A Timeless Tribute to Everyday Objects
Known for his intricate still lifes, British artist Callum Eaton brings photorealistic precision to bear on the fading charms of public technology, from photo booths to ATMs. Continue reading »
You Will Not Die: Mysterious London At Night in Paintings by Darren Hayman
Darren Hayman, the British artist and musician who fronted the band Hefner, felt a pang of longing as he walked his dog at night. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images Of The British Wildlife Photography Awards 2023
Overall Winner: “A Look to the Future” by Charlie Page
The British Wildlife Photography Awards 2023 announced its 25 winning photos, with Charlie Page taking the overall first place for his work called “A Look to the Future”. Continue reading »
This Agency Creates Plywood Renderings of Modernist Buildings
Helen Waites founded Plyconic, a London design studio specializing in 3D artworks depicting postwar modernist architecture using layers of plywood. Her inspiration came from observing the changing light and shadows at the Barbican in London, leading her to start a Kickstarter campaign. Continue reading »
Exploring the Delicious Slices of London: A Look at Cafes from the 1980s
Ivy Café, Lewisham, 1990
In Peter Marshall’s second collection of photographs capturing the cafes of London between 1980 and 1990, we are transported back to a time before chain coffee shops dominated the high street. Mo’s, Maggie’s, Ivy’s, Pegy’s and more, these cafes offered a glimpse into a simpler era, prior to the plethora of styles and flavors available today. Continue reading »
Lady Diana’s Life Imagined: Artist Explores What it Would be Like if She Were Still Alive
Lady Diana’s untimely death on August 31, 1997, sent shockwaves through the world. As the “queen of hearts,” she remained a beloved figure in popular culture and continues to be remembered with fondness and admiration by people all over the globe. Continue reading »
A Selection of The Winning Images in The British Ecological Society’s Annual Competition ‘Capturing Ecology’
The British Ecological Society has released a collection of winning and highly commended images from their annual Capturing Ecology competition. These photos, taken by international ecologists and students from around the world, showcase the beauty and complexity of nature. The selection includes a mother leopard hunting and a bird floating peacefully on water, highlighting the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world.
Overall runner-up – Leopard Surprise! by Peter Hudson
Leopards don’t often hunt during the day but demand from her cub meant Luluka had to have a go. Steenbok are not easy prey; they exhibit multiple adaptations to avoid predation, so the hunt was long and careful. It took Luluka four attempts to secure her prey. Photograph: Peter Hudson/BES Capturing Ecology 2022 Continue reading »
Amazing Black and White Photos Capture Street Scenes of Liverpool in the 1980s
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is the tenth largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom. Continue reading »
Beautiful Colorized Photos of a Young Queen Elizabeth II From the 1930s and 1940s
Elizabeth, Duchess of York (1900 – 2002), looking at her first child, future Queen, Princess Elizabeth. May 1926
Photo colorization by Sanna Dullaway for TIME / original image: Speaight/Hulton Archive—Getty Images
When Winston Churchill met a two-year-old princess, the future Queen Elizabeth II, in 1928, he observed in the child a remarkable quality. She had, the future Prime Minister said, an “air of authority and reflectiveness astonishing in an infant.” Continue reading »
Spectacualr Photographs of The Woodland Trust’s Tree of The Year 2022 Nominees
Five gargantuan oaks, one of which is said to have provided the inspiration for the fantasy land of Narnia, and a spectacular ‘portal rowan’ are among the unique specimens in the running to be crowned the Woodland Trust’s tree of the year for 2022.
Waverley Abbey yew, Farnham, Surrey
A truly spectacular yew, with roots that grow into and around the ruins of Waverley Abbey – the first monastery founded in Britain 900 years ago by the reforming Cistercian religious order. After the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536, the abbey was dismantled. It is a beautiful tree with roots that sprawl out above ground before plunging into the earth. Its multi-stemmed form is dotted with holes, crevices and areas of decay that provide a habitat for other species. Age: The exact age is unknown but it can not be more than 480 years old. Photograph: Woodland Trust Continue reading »
Wonderful Photos of London’s Tube Riders From the 1960s to 1980s
For more than four decades, photographer Bob Mazzer has been taking pictures on the London Underground. Continue reading »
The Quiet Beauty of Small Towns: Superb Landscapes and Collages by Clover Robin
Clover Robin is a British artist, crafter and designer who creates small and pretty towns. Her works most often with collages, but he doesn’t shy away from watercolors and gouache either – Robin’s paintings are charming in their simplicity and have a therapeutic effect. Continue reading »
Women Paint “Stockings” on Their Legs at a Store in Croydon, London, 1941
Wallace Carothers produced the first nylon fiber in 1935, but it was the 1939 World’s Fair that first introduced the nylon stocking to the public. It was marketed as a fabric made from “carbon, water and air.“ Cheap and durable, better in appearance than silk, nylon soon became the material of choice for manufacturing women’s stockings. Continue reading »
God Save the Queen: Amazing Photos of Manchester Punks in the 1980s
Punk fashion is the clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewelery, and body modifications of the punk counterculture. Punk fashion varies widely, ranging from Vivienne Westwood designs to styles modeled on bands like The Exploited to the dressed-down look of North American hardcore. The distinct social dress of other subcultures and art movements, including glam rock, skinheads, rude boys, greasers, and mods have influenced punk fashion. Continue reading »
Candid Photographs of The Rolling Stones Performing at the Alexandra Palace in London, 1964
Frank Monaco
The Rolling Stones’ All Night Rave took place at the Alexandra Palace in London on June 26, 1964. Organized by The Rolling Stones’ fan club, the show coincided with the release date of the band’s hit “It’s All Over Now”. The Stones joined a blues-rich bill that featured John Lee Hooker, John Mayall, Alexis Korner, and Jimmy Powell and the Five Dimensions. Continue reading »
Fascinating Photographs of Old Shopfronts Taken in the East End of London in 1988
“In 1988 these ex-shops didn’t have long left. Long after the interiors had turned to dust, what you see are pretty much their last appearances on earth.” Continue reading »
Thatcher Says: Depressive Photos of Liverpool in the 1980s
The 1980s were a time of turmoil and upheaval for Liverpool. Unemployment and economic instability led to widespread disquiet, culminating in public shows of resistance such as the 1981 Toxteth Riots. Liverpool also elected its first Labour council in 1983, who promised to stand up for what they saw as unjust cuts under the Thatcher government. Continue reading »
London in 1982: Among the Sloane Rangers, New Wavers And Everyday People
Sunil Gupta (born 1953) is an Indian-born Canadian photographer, based in London. His career has been spent “making work responding to the injustices suffered by gay men across the globe, himself included”, including themes of sexual identity, migration, race and family. Continue reading »
London During the Blitz Through Powerful Color Photos
A bus is laying inside a huge bomb crater in a London street after heavy German air raid bombing attacks during the Battle of Britain, October 15, 1940
Born 1912 in Evanston, Illinois, American photographer William Vandivert work for the Chicago Herald Examiner from 1935. He joined the Life magazine team in London in 1938 and was one of the few photographers who were working in color photography before the Second World War. Vandivert made color photo report in Paris in the summer of 1939. He was using Kodachrome. The following year he photographed in color the Blitz in London. Continue reading »
Spectacular Photographs of Newcastle in the 1970s
Between Beresford Road (left) and Avondale Road in 1974.
Trevor Ermel
“I started taking photographs in my school days in the 1960s, as a means of recording my interest in railways,” says Trevor Ermel, whose photographs of Newcastle take us back to when the city was still synonymous with heavy industry. Continue reading »
Royal Meteorological Society: The Winners of Weather Photographer of the Year Competition 2021
The Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) has announced the winners of its Weather Photographer of the Year competition 2021! This amazing image captured by Giulio Montini won the overall prize, and shows a foggy autumn day in the town of Airuno, Italy.
“Morning Fog”. This shot of a hilltop town in Italy on a foggy autumn day was named the winner. (Photo by Giulio Montini/Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather Photographer of the Year Awards) Continue reading »
These Colourised Photographs Show How People Took Shelter in The London Underground in The 1940s
According to Lottie Cutcher, a photo retouch magician: “My name is Lottie, and I love looking through old photos. For my day job I work in costume, so I’m passionate about social history and getting the colour accurately matched. I recently started colourising black and white photographs to bring out how the scene would have actually looked at the time the picture was taken. I think black and white photographs have a beautiful style of their own, but colourising them helps the pictures feel relevant and relatable today, and gives them more context in the real world. Continue reading »
Edwardian London as Seen Through the Eyes of an Unknown Russian Tourist in 1909
London entered the 20th century at the height of its influence as the capital of the largest empire in history, but the new century was to bring many challenges. London was the largest city in the world from about 1825 until it was overtaken by New York City in 1925. Continue reading »
Incredible Color Photographs That Show What Life Was Really Like in Britain in the 1950s
Unemployment was very low in the 1950s and it was a long period of prosperity. In the early part of the decade, there was still rationing. However, food rationing ended in 1954. In the 1950s living standards in Britain rose considerably. In the late 1950s, Britain became an affluent society. By 1959 about two-thirds of British homes had a vacuum cleaner. However, even in 1960, only 44% of homes had a washing machine. Continue reading »
