Crowds and pigeons in Trafalgar Square 1960 IN16507 Regent Street

Regent Street

Exterior view of Somerset House and Church of St Mary le Strand

A poster advertising aerial voyages within the 'New Steam Captive Balloon' to take place daily from Ashburnham Park

once the stall trader had dispatched them with a knife

This print shows Somerset House from the south and Waterloo Bridge

Crowds and pigeons in Trafalgar Square 1960 IN16507 Regent StreetCrowds and pigeons in Trafalgar Square in September 1960. Trafalgar Square was once renound for the large numbers of pigeons and feeding them was a popular activity however in 2003 bylaws were passed banning the feeding of the pigeons because of the damage that they and their droppings caused to the monuments.