These monochrome images of the threadbare postwar years of London from a series of postcards published by Charles Skilton.
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
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London's Life of the 1950s
(via Spitalfields Life)