60 Vintage Photographs Capture Everyday Life in the U.K During the 1960s

These fascinating were taken by photographer David Ayres that documented everyday life of England from the 1960s.

 
Southsea Beach, 1964
 
Shop window  at Plymouth shopping centre, 1965

 

The Cenotaph, December 1965

 

 Torpoint Ferry, June 1965

 

Bond's, Preston, 1966


Central Pier, Blackpool, 1966

 

Cheapside Stalls, 1966

 

Cheapside, Preston, 1966

 

Cudworth Street, Wigan, 1966

 

Friargate, Preston, 1966

 

Frozen park pond, probably Mesnes park in Wigan, 1966

 

Ice cream queue, Preston 1966

 

Ivy Bridge, Avenham Park, Preston, 1966

 

Lewis's, Blackpool, spring 1966

 

Mesnes Park in Wigan, 1966

 

North Pier, Blackpool, 1966

 

Preston bus station, 1966

 

Preston Harris Museum, 1966

 

Preston market place, 1966

 

Preston Market, 1966

 

Preston Market, 1966

 

River Ribble, Preston, 1966

 

Sessions House and Cenotaph, 1966

 

South Pier, Blackpool, 1966

 

St George's Shopping Centre, Preston, 1966

 

St George's Shopping Centre, Preston, 1966

 

Street scene of Preston, 1966

 

 The market stalls against the Sessions House in Preston, 1966

 

 Winter landscape with houses, Wigan, 1966

 

Crowds Christmas shopping under the decorations in Haymarket, Sheffield, December 1967

 

Football in Graves Park, Sheffield, December 1967

 

Paradise Square, Sheffield, December 1967

 

 The junction of Meadowhead and Abbey Lane in Sheffield at night, December 1967

 

Albert Road from Aggie Weston's, Plymouth, 1968

 

 Birds on a bike, Sheffield, 1968

 

Dingles in Plymouth, 1968

 

Exeter Street, Plymouth, 1968

 

Hoe Road, Plymouth, 1968

 

Looe beach in the fog, 1968

 

Looe River, 1968

 

 Lostwithiel Silver Band playing in Looe, 1968

 

Mayflower Steps, Plymouth, 1968

 

Notte Street, Plymouth, 1968

 

On the way trip to Looe, 1968

 

People clamouring to buy daffodils on a rainy day, Sheffield, 1968

 

Playing on Looe beach, 1968

 

Playing on Looe beach, 1968

 

Playing on Looe beach, 1968

 

Rainy day in Sheffield, 1968

 

Scrapyard, Plymouth, 1968

 

Sheffield in the sun, 1968

 

Sheffield market, 1968

 

 Somewhere down the Barbican in Plymouth, 1968

 

The Hispaniola from the top of the Mayflower steps, Plymouth, 1968

 

The miners' row of terraced houses in Unstone, North Derbyshire, 1968

 

The Navy, down the Barbican in Plymouth, 1968

 

The Salvation Army band march down Albert Road, Devonport, 1968

 

 Victor Value, Portsmouth, 1968

 

 Weymouth, circa summer 1968

 

 
 The Beauty Pageant at the Barlow Well dressing ceremony, South Dronfield, August 1969