Mick Hartley

The London Pub is the latest publication from Hoxton Mini Press in their Vintage Britain series:

Private Thomas Nugent celebrates finally returning home to Edmonton, north London, in 1953 from a prisoner-of war-camp in Korea [Bela Zola/Mirrorpix/Getty Images]

Vi Lee, the former landlady of the Prince and Princess of Wales, now closed, prepares for the royal wedding celebrations between Charles and Diana in 1981 [Alamy]

Bartenders at The George, in Southwark, south London, in 1962 [Getty Images]

A mother and her baby find a quiet corner in The Kenton in Hackney in 1986 [Berris Connolly]

Peggy Seeger entertains pub-goers at The Enterprise in Covent Garden in 1960. [Alamy]

Catching up on the news in an unknown pub in Soho in 1981 [Alamy]

A laugh and a pint to end the day c 1950 [Alamy]

A dog finds a morsel outside the The Baptist’s Head, now closed, on St John’s Lane in Clerkenwell in 1954 [Alamy]

A lunch hour for railway staff in The Globe at Borough Market, near Southwark Cathedral, in the summer of 1955 [Alamy]