Check out this beautiful old color picture of Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus taken in 1949. Photo was taken by a Chalmers Butterfield (what a wonderful name, right?).

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Jonathan is a consummate Anglophile who launched Anglotopia.net in 2007 to channel his passion for Britain. Londontopia is its sister publication dedicated to everything London.
Amazing. I’m surprise it looks so normal so soon after the war…