The 1970s was a decade made for rebels, music, sport, feminism, protests, and pure unadulterated fun. The first Pride march of 1971 ended up in Trafalgar Square, the first Concorde flight to JFK airport left Heathrow in 1977.
Let's head back to the streets of London in 1970 through fascinating color snapshots taken by Harold Slatore.
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| "Pyjama Tops", London |
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| All Hallows Church on Eastcheap in the City of London (Finance district) with Bowring Building on the left |
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| Buckingham Palace and the Victoria Memorial |
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| County Hall |
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| Docks, River Thames |
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| Downing Street |
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| East India Company |
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| Enjoying a box picnic lunch at Runnymede |
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| Fleet Street |
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| Houses of Parliament from the south bank of the Thames |
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| Interior, St. Paul's Cathedral |
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| London bridge is in the distance along the Thames |
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| Marlboro Road |
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| Oxford Street |
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| Piccadilly, London |
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| Piccadilly, London |
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| Piccadilly, London |
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| Piccadilly, London |
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| Piccadilly, London |
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| Queen Anne, St. Paul's Cathedral |
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| St. George's Chapel |
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| St. Paul's Cathedral from the Thames |
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| The clipper ship, Cutty Sark, in dry dock at Greenwich, London |
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| The Shaftesbury Memorial, topped by the statue of Anteros - Piccadilly Circus, London |
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| The White Tower, Tower of London, from the River Thames |
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| Tower Bridge |
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| Tower Bridge |
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| Tower Bridge |
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| Tower Bridge |
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| Tower of Big Ben |
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| Tower of London |
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| Tower of London |
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| Tower of London |
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| Victoria Tower, Houses of Parliament |
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| Waiting at Gatwick |
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| Waiting at Gatwick |
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| Walking along the Mall, headed toward Buckingham Palace |
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| Windsor Castle. St. George's Chapel on the left and Round Tower on the right |