Granny Takes a Trip Photograph By Simos Tsapnidis 1966

Granny Takes a Trip was a boutique opened in February 1966 at 488 Kings Road, Chelsea, London, by Nigel Waymouth, his girlfriend Sheila Cohen and John Pearse. The shop, remained open until the mid-1970s and has been called the first psychedelic boutique in Swinging London of the 1960s.

OUTSIDE HENEKEY'S , Pub on Portobello Road. London, 1966.

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1966.

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CHILDREN QUEUING OUTSIDE COLISEUM CINEMA- London, 1967

All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis,1967.
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THE FAMOUS PUBS, HENEKEY’S AND FINCH’S, on Portobello Road. London, 1966 and 1967.

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1966 and 1967.

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The Famous pubs, Henekey’s and Finch’s. Hippies, Beatniks and Mods, outside on the road and inside the pubs. 

1st OF MAY 1966. Hyde Park, London.

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis.

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Hyde Park, Speaker's Corner. London, 1967

 Hyde Park is one of London's finest landscapes 
and covers over 350 acres. 
Since 1872, people have been allowed to speak at Speaker's Corner on any subject they want to. 
All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967.
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Donovan and friends at Portobello Market. London, 1967

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967.
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Donovan and friends (the girl is probably Sue Lion) at the Portobello Market, in London.  The year is 1967 and the season is Spring, when Donovan worked on his album "A Gift from a Flower to a Garden".

BETTER BOOKZ. London, 1967

In the 1950s and 1960s, London underwent a cultural revolution, which altered forever the trajectory of contemporary art and gave rise to a radical re-formulation of artistic production. United in their distrust of culture, the emerging generation of post-war artists, poets and writers were searching for new ways of responding to their alienation from the previous generation and the smothering geopolitical anxiety of the cold war.

Many of these artists found each other while taking refuge at Tony Godwin's Charing Cross bookshop, Better Books. 

Lazy on a sunny afternoon.London, 1967

Lazy on a sunny afternoon. Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, London, 1967

Mods outside the club Tiles. Bee Gees Live Performance,1967

Mods waiting for Bee Gees live performance, outside the historic club TILES, London.
Support group was The Tangerine Peel
All photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967.

Protests against the Vietnam War. London, 1967.

Protests against the Vietnam War.
Trafalgar Square. 
Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, May of 1967 

Young Socialists. London. 1967.

 Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis. 1967

Greeks protesting against greek military junta. London, May of 1967

Photograph by Simos Tsapnidis

SWINGING LONDON. Carnaby Str. July, 1967

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, at Carnaby Str.London. July, 1967.
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Swinging London is a catch-all term applied to the fashion and cultural scene that flourished in London, in the 1960s.
It was a youth-oriented phenomenon that emphasised the new and modern. It was a period of optimism and hedonism, and a cultural revolution. One catalyst was the recovery of the British economy after post-World War II austerity which lasted through much of the 1950s.