"I was drawn to the Sunday market by the people, by the contrast between the energy they created and the run-down state of the place, and by the spontaneous and highly visual 'street theatre' on ...

"In Soho," wrote Norman (Bernard was on photo duty for the book ... for there are no better restaurants in London than the ones in Soho, but hanging about all day is no fun.

The book is part of the publisher’s Vintage Britain series ... Clerkenwell, London, 1954 (Alamy) Private Thomas Nugent celebrates finally returning home from a POW camp in Korea. Edmonton, 1953 (Photo ...