« Photography: The Remarkable Work of Photojournalist John Bulmer »

Several months ago (2/2/2010), the online version of London's Guardian newspaper ran a photo collection titled North Faces featuring select works by renowned British photojournalist John Bulmer. The collection is definitely worth a look. It's a riveting collection of black and white and color images that depict life in the harsh industrial landscape north of London in the 1960s and 1970s. Full of sad irony and slight touches of humor, the collection gives you a vivid window into a place time seemed to have forgotten. With the exception of the photo above with the "era appropriate" automobile, I would have guessed most of the images were captured well before the 1960s. Here's how the Guardian describes the collection:

It was the early 1960s when photojournalist John Bulmer set out to document life in the bleak industrial centres of the north of England. A pioneer of colour photography, Bulmer captured the north it in all its variety and beauty.