St James’s Street, London 1981
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This 1981 view looks along St James’s Street through a characteristically busy central London streetscape of parked cars, delivery vehicles and slow-moving traffic. Closest to the camera is a white Mercedes-Benz 200 saloon, while further ahead a Group 4 security van, a red double-decker bus and a yellow Nippon Air vehicle add more unmistakable period detail. The street is lined with tall late-Victorian and Edwardian buildings, with shopfronts and business signs including Chemist, Antony’s and boards advertising property agents and offices to let. It is a strong everyday record of St James’s before later traffic changes and retail turnover, capturing the area not as a ceremonial quarter but as a working West End street full of business traffic, parked cars and weekday movement.
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