Fantastic Color Snapshots of England in the early 1970s _ Ye Olde England Chronicles

   

These fantastic color snapshots were taken in London, Canterbury, and Painswick by amateur photographer David C. Cook when he made a trip to England in October 1972.


 
Regent St. dept. stores, London, 1972

 

 
Ride with Johnnie Walker, London, 1972

 

Somewhere near the St. Mary's church in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, 1972

 

South of Westgate, Canterbury, 1972

 

St. Mary's Street, Painswick, 1972

 

The Antique & Curios shoppe is now oddly-named Mexican restaurant Cafe des Amis, Canterbury, 1972

 

The Old Weavers' House, Canterbury, 1972

 

Three women are about to walk past the Painswick Post Office on New Street, Painswick, 1972

 

A bicyclist carries his ladder to work, Canterbury, 1972

 

A group of school children and their chaperones all frolic in a park in Canterbury, Kent, 1972

 

A tower of Westgate, Canterbury, 1972

 

Buttermarket and Burgate, Canterbury, 1972

 

Electric Kebabs, Canterbury, 1972

 

Lambeth Bridge, London, 1972

 

Locking Piece, London, 1972

 

Mercury Lane Lovers, Canterbury, 1972

 

Mercury Lane Stroll, Canterbury, 1972

 

On Tibbiwell Lane in Painswick, Gloucestershire, England, 1972

 

 
Paved High Street, Canterbury, 1972


(Photos by David C. Cook, via Rob Ketcherside)