Couples on the dodgems ride Battersea Park fun fair 1966

Couples on the dodgems ride Battersea Park fun fair 1966Couples on the dodgems ride, Battersea Park fun fair. Thousands spent their Easter bank holiday at the Battersea Park fun fair. This dodgems ride was one of many attractions that also included a water chute, a tree walk and the Big Dipper rollercoaster. The fair opened as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. It closed in the early 1970s following a fatal accident on the Big Dipper.

Houses in Piccadilly are on the left and the hospital on the right

The building of the London to Birmingham Railway devastated the north London area of Camden Town and made many families homeless

Bomb Damage at Queen Street Place

the Tower and the City of London can be seen on the North Bank as well as Southwark and Lambeth on the South Bank

the Thames in the North East

Margaret's tower

A new volume in ACC Art Books' London series

Panorama of London

anger and wisdom

Police Constables Arthur Cross and Fred Tibbs photographed the aftermath

a village festival was held for the local community

Section 31 of the original Descriptive map of London Poverty