Julie Christie in a No Smoking carriage on the Piccadilly Line in 1965, the year she appeared in Darling and dr Zhivago - photo by David Hurn

Tiddles, a rather fat cat that lived in the public toilets in Paddington Station - 1978 - photo by Chris Moorhouse

Not easy to get

Mushroom finds this morning

Jumble Sale, Chelsea c.1960 - photos by John Bignell

Lee Miller's Torso being cast by Paul Hamann and assistant, London, 1939 by Roland Penrose. Hall and sideboard, Farleys House, Farleys House & Gallery by Tony Tree.

The Blue Posts pub on the corner of Berwick and Broadwick Street in 1961, 1975 and 1979

Trafalgar Square in 1973

David Hemmings outside Pride and Clarke on the Stockwell Road in 1965. From the film 'Blow-Up'.

Vauxhall Cross in 1985

Welcome to mini-skirts but not to mini wages. Amalgamated Union of Engineering & Foundry Workers leaflet from 1968.

Cutty Sark, Greenwich Church Street, 1972

I've at last got my old Nickel in the Machine website up and running, and secure too! nickelinthemachine.com

Lunch menu at the House of Commons, 11th May 1950. Presumably the prices haven't changed much.

Traffic warden Mrs Ives crashes an Ossie Clark/Michael Rainey photoshoot on the Fulham Road in September 1967. The models were Elisa Ngai and Bill Chenail (Elisa’s Ossie dress sold for 6gns, bill's Kaftan 9gns).