![]() ![]() Jordan J Lloyd of Dynamichrome colourised many of the images in the book. 'Think of the colours of London and what do you imagine? The reds of open-top buses and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone and pigeons in Trafalgar square? Colours of London shows us that colour is everywhere in the city, and each one holds myriad links to its past,' the publisher notes.Ī shocking picture of an upturned bus in the aftermath of a World War II bombing raid, a poignant shot of the London floods of 1928, and a 1950s image of children paddling in the Thames are among the eye-opening colourised pictures in the tome. ![]() The book explores how London's 'many hues have come to shape its history and identity'. They are black-and-white images that have been specially colourised to illustrate the captivating new book Colours of London: A History, by biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd, published by Frances Lincoln. These photographs promise to 'bring a lost London back to life'. ![]()
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