Wednesday Picture: Kentish Town Booze Wars in the Evening Standard, 1977

Look at this old Evening Standard I discovered under the floorboards recently. The date? Friday May 30, 1977. Eagerly flicking through the pages, it read, uncannily, rather like the news in 2012: London was gearing up for the Silver Jubilee, with Oxford Street expected to earn ‘£200million’ from tourists. The leader celebrated 150 years of …

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