The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition held throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. It was organised by the government to give the British a…

These fascinating color photos from Glen Fairweather that capture street scenes of London in the 1980s. Oxford Street, London, 1980 (outside Selfridges looking east) A puppeteer outside the Earl…

Newly-wedded British couple Denys and Margaret Gardiner spent their honeymoon driving 900 miles up and down the east coast of England in August 1939, just weeks before…

In 1978, Ed Sijmons and his partner Louise took a trip to London. Their grainy snapshots show a gritty look at the capital city at the time…

A knobbly knees competition (or knobbliest knees) is a parody of a beauty contest, in which the winner is the person judged to have the knobbliest, or…

The cargo ship Foylebank under construction at the Harland & Wolff shipyard. The ship was later renamed Patroclos. These amazing color photos of Belfast capture the shipyards,…

Bomb damage to a London street, Dec. 16, 1943. This collection of rare photographs of London, spanning from the dark days of the Blitz to the triumphant…

These pictures were taken by Flickr user AntyDiluvian during his trip to London in September 1973. The capital city was the first stop in a month-long European…

Peter Sellers was born in Southsea, Hampshire, in southern England, where by chance his parents were performing in a local vaudeville show, on September 8, 1925. His…