These fascinating colour photos of England’s capital were taken by an unknown photographer although we know he was probably Canadian and almost certainly an architect.

BEA Waterloo Terminal 1956

Trafalgar Square, 1958

Number 10, Downing Street, 1956

Tower Bridge, 1956

Royal Festival Hall, 1956

London Airport Control Tower, 1965

Cafe at the top level of the Passenger Building, London Airport (it wasn’t to be called Heathrow for another ten years), 1956

 

St James Palace, London, 1956

Landseer Lions, Trafalgar Square, London, 1958

View of London Bridge from Tower Bridge 1956

View down Whitehall from Trafalgar Square (including Big Ben), May 1958

Tower Bridge, 1958

Nelson’s Column, May 1958

Old Sunken Roundabout outside the Heathrow Tunnel (and just south of the Bath Road), London Airport, London, 1956