Wonderful Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life in England in the Early 1950s

   

These wonderful pictures were taken by Max Leonard on Kodachrome, captured everyday life in England from the early 1950s...

 
Street Scene of Cambridge, 1951
 
Christchurch Street, 1952

 

Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, 1952

 

 
Bournemouth Gardens, 1952

 

Old Prison, 1952

 

Guards at Coronation, Trafalgar Square, London, 1953

 

 
Coach at Coronation, Charing Cross, London, 1953

 

Bath Road in Totterdown, Bristol, 1952

 

 
Weston Strand, 1953

 

 
Wooden Dock, 1953

 

 
Village Church, 1953

 

Cambridge, 1952

 

 
Weston Beach, 1952

 

Wooden Boats, Polperro, 1952

 

 
Polperro Street, 1952

 

West Street in Corfe, 1953

 

 
Chester Clock Tower Arch Way, 1952

 

 
River Front, Cambridge, 1952

 

 
Combe Bridge, 1952

 

Silverstone Grid, 1953

 

 
Stonehenge with troops visiting, 1953

 

Honors Graduation, 1953

 

 
Corfe Castle, 1952

 

Cottage, 1953

 

 
The East Gate Clock in Chester, 1952

 

Trafalgar Square, 1952

 

 
Boys in Corfe, 1952

 

Mevagissey Harbor, 1953

 

 
Windmill Newmarket, 1953

 

Graduation Cambridge, 1952

 

Winslow, 1952

 

 
The Mall London, 1953

 

Procession Cambridge, 1953

 

Trafalgar Fountain, 1953

 

 
London Street Scene Coronation, 1953

 

Polperro Cornwall, 1953

 

Mevagissey Cornwall, 1953

 

 
Polperro, 1953

 

Bournemouth, 1951

 

Big Ben from Bridge, 1953

 

Windsor from River, 1953

 

 
Tower bridge, 1953

 

Women Walking, 1953

 

Lambeth Pier

 

Market at Bury St. Edmunds, 1952

 

 
Palace Guards, 1953

 

Big Ben, 1953

 

QEII Driving By, 1953

 

Bridge and Corfe Castle, 1953

 

 
Rooftops and Corfe Castle, 1953


(via Michael Leonard)