Posted by http://nostalgoteket.se U.K. Newsreel. A look at the Piccadilly Circus of the Swinging Sixties! A lot of what is shown here no longer exists as it was soon "modernized" to meet the demands of a changing world. Also a look underground Piccadilly to see sights that few people have ever seen.
Thank god this plan never came to fruition...
xr6lad 2 days ago
The West End all the way from Oxford Street in the North all the way down to Leicester Square was a pretty grotty seedy area at its worst in the 70s. I remember what Piccadilly was like in the early 1980s, pretty nasty place. Until Leicester Square was re-built in the late 80s it was a place you definitely did not hang out in or take your family to, again seedy and pretty dodgy with pimps, drug dealers in evidence.
dutchgoing 1 month ago