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.

They said “We want a Revolution”. London 1967.

Allen Ginsberg, Mods, Rockers and others Freaks. OZ Magazine. London. 1967. All Photographs By Simos Tsapnidis/ Copyright Manolis Daloukas.

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

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1966.

Copyright Manolis Daloukas

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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.

Copyright Manolis Daloukas

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

Donovan and friends at Portobello Market. London, 1967

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, 1967.
Copyright Manolis Daloukas.
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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".

SWINGING LONDON. Carnaby Str. July, 1967

Photographs by Simos Tsapnidis, at Carnaby Str.London. July, 1967.
Copyright Manolis Daloukas.
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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.