Black-and-white pics capture couples kissing goodbye on smoke-filled London Underground in the 70s and 80s

STUNNING images of couples kissing on a smoky London underground in the 1970s and 1980s are being released. Mike Goldwater snapped the candid shots featuring lovers are now presented in a book, London Underground 1970-80. School pals, buskers and train workers also have a moment in the spotlight. The pictures capture the network at a […]

STUNNING images of couples kissing on a smoky London underground in the 1970s and 1980s are being released.

Mike Goldwater snapped the candid shots featuring lovers are now presented in a book, London Underground 1970-80.

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

The series ended in 1980 and this was taken in 1979 in Oxford Circus[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

This stunning image captures a couple kissing at Holborn station in 1978[/caption]

School pals, buskers and train workers also have a moment in the spotlight.

The pictures capture the network at a time when you were allowed to smoke and tickets were purchased from large machines for just a few pennies.

Art writer Lucy Davies writes in the introduction: “Some stations were lit only by individual hanging bulbs in white light shades, immersing travellers in a dim, Hades-like gloom.

“It made taking photographs incredibly difficult, forcing Goldwater to function at the very limit of his film’s capabilities, but it gives his pictures a wonderfully brooding, unearthly cast.”

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

This image from Oxford Circus in 1978 has been published in in a book called London Underground 1970-80[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

This lively image was taken on the Northern line in 1974[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

Mike Goldwater snapped this candid shot on Northern line in 1975[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

When Goldwater took this photograph in Baker Street in 1979, cameras were rarely seen in public[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

The photographer spent ten years capturing pictures on the Underground and he shot this in King’s Cross in 1972[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

Before contactless tickets were purchased from large machines like this one in Piccadilly Circus, 1978[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

This woman was captured at Moorgate station in 1973[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

This young girl seemed to pose for the picture in Westbourne Park, 1979[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

This group of boys were captured at Wembley Park, 1979[/caption]

London Underground 1970-1980 by Mike Goldwater is published by Hoxton Mini Press

Goldwater captured this man in Tottenham Court Road, 1977[/caption]

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