Victoria Street, London 1972
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This 1972 photograph looks along Victoria Street in London, with a busy mix of shops, offices, buses and passing traffic leading the eye towards Westminster Cathedral, its striped campanile rising in the distance amid construction cranes. The street is rich in period commercial detail: on the right are shopfronts including City Tote, Alfred Marks Bureau and a branch of Gary Elliott, while on the left the line of signs includes Wallace Heaton and other now-vanished Victoria businesses. A red London double-decker bus waits by the kerb beside black cabs and saloons, while the broad junction in the foreground gives the whole scene the feel of a major central London traffic artery before later redevelopment changed much of Victoria’s character. More than just a street view, it captures Victoria Street in 1972 as a lively commercial corridor, still edged by older terraces and mid-century shopfronts beneath the growing skyline beyond.
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