From the Swinging 60s to the “Me Decade” of the 1970s, London moved into a decade that was a mixed bag of new places to visit, changes in the city’s government, and housing estates rising into the sky.
The period from 1971 to 1980 was also marked by a wave of new violence from the Irish Republican Army. However, as London had proved so many times before, nothing can keep the city down and the 70s still provided a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the future.
These fascinating photos from daves_archive1 that captured street scenes in London from the 1970s.