Curious Photos from Britain's Past (21 photos)

Here's a new collection of colorized photographs from Foggy Albion, where each frame is a living fragment of 20th-century British history. All photographs have been colorized. Enjoy!





A man living in the Liverpool slums examines a large damp stain on a wall, 1935.



Girls demonstrate how to convert a motorcycle with a sidecar into a small camper. The motorcycle is a Panther model 120. England, 1958.





British actress Deborah Watling, 1971.



An unemployed youth in his room, Liverpool, 1957.



Photographer: Bert Hardy

Women eating ice cream on the beach. UK, 1938.



Italian immigrants in Bedfordshire, England, 1955.



Photographer: Bert Hardy

The British airship R100 nears completion at the Royal Naval Air Service airbase near Howden, Yorkshire, November 1929.



Children play in the courtyard of the Gorbals, a notorious slum area of ​​Glasgow. Scotland, January 1948.



A Cambridge University student stands in front of an arch, reading. England, UK, 1957.



Photographer: Bert Hardy

A punk, a rude boy, and a skinhead hang out in England, 1980.



Photographer: Gavin Watson

English couple Mr. and Mrs. N. Smith on a walk in North Devon, 1931.



A miner's daughter, Yorkshire, England. 1952.



Photographer: Carl Mydans

Mother and children making their way down a back alley. Liverpool slums, 1962.



A gym workout led by athlete and former boxing champion Fred Dyer. UK, 1937.



A tugboat sails along the River Thames, London, 1949.



Photographer: Bert Hardy

A new, ultra-modern, sun-drenched barber's booth on display at a hairdressing exhibition. London, 1929.



"The Barrel of Joy." England, 1946.



London Waterloo railway station. London, 1953.



Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Everyday life of Snowdonia shepherds. Wales, 1951.



London, 1905-1908.