The People's Archive | 1960s
A selection of The People’s Archive documenting everyday life in 1960s Britain.
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Photo © Paul Wright/The People’s Archive®
Paul: “This is a photograph of my parents, Hilary and Harry Wright, on their motorbike and sidecar. It was taken by a neighbour outside their house in Balgowan Road, Beckenham in 1960.”
Photo © Steve Chapple/The People’s Archive®
Grandad and Penny, Stanshaw Road, Frenchay, Bristol, 1961.
Photo © Gareth Davies/The People’s Archive ®
Gareth: “A photo of my Nan her four sisters and a friend in Rugby, 1961.”
Photo © Jacki Harrison-Stanley/The People’s Archive®
Photo © Jon Sheppard/The People’s Archive®
Photo © Abbie Davison/The People’s Archive®
One of the images submitted to us at our crowdsourcing event at Bury Art Museum. This photo submitted by Abbie Davison is of her family playing football in the street where they lived.
Photo © Stuart Woodman/The People’s Archive ®
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Photo © Gavin Bloomer/The People’s Archive®
Photo © Austin Smith/The People’s Archive®
Photo © Paul Louis Archer/The People’s Archive®
Paul: “From left to right, mum, gran, grandad and my sister Susan at Lullingstone Avenue, Swanley, Kent, UK in 1966. Photographed by my dad using his Voigtländer Vito B camera, which he still owns at the grand age of 91-years-old. Mum is also doing well at 86-years-old. Grandad worked as an engine driver on the railway during peacetime and fought in The Somme, while gran worked in an ammunition factory, during WWI. There was a touch of Raymond Briggs’ ‘Ethel & Ernest’ to them.”
Photo © Edwin Waugh/The People’s Archive®
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Photo © Jules/The People’s Archive®
Photo © John Fadden/The People’s Archive®
Photo © Jules/The People’s Archive®
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