Do you know where this is in London?

[SundayBells]

This is a really odd one I know.

This is a (blurred out) photo of my husband and his friend when they were teenagers. They'd hitched to London in the 1970s to see a band and had the time of their lives.

This is the only photo they have of the trip. Neither of them know where this photo was taken and, as they have a special occasion coming up, I would love to be able to tell them.

I've tried reversing the image and everything else I can so I'm throwing myself on the collective wisdom on MN. Can anyone help please?

Tell that to mardy arse makeyourownsunshine

What was the band and the year ?

Likely they would have been playing at somewhere like the Marquee club in Wardour Street
so then you are drawing a line from whichever motorway they would have come in on to Soho

Which brings me back to the old layout of the noth side of Trafalgar square
as its where people would gather

Agreed. My first thought was the other side of Trafalgar Square near Admiralty Arch

@SundayBells They went to see a band playing... where? Do they remember the venue?

I don't think it is - the proportions of the plinth aren't right. Nor is it the Bank of England again the stone work doesn't look right in colour or style and there is no angle where there is a building with a balustrade like the one on the background. Those blocks are more modern looking - cut sharp and very very large

I think this photo may have been taken near St Paul’s, Mansion House, Bank or Holborn / Embankment.

My first thought was bank

I would. Think its a lovely idea to meet 50yrs later where a special memory was created.

I’d also take a guess at the Bank area, near the Bank of England/The Ned! Have a hunt on google street view around there and hopefully you can find it!

I would say Whitehall / admiralty arch around that area.

Crimean War Memorial, Waterloo Place.

I wondered about top of Trafalgar square but wasn't where i thought. Lots of similar architecture though. OP if they recreate it we'll need to see the pic!

Nelson's column

But which gig venue would they have been going to around there
and from which main road ?

Not Hammersmith Odeon
Not Sir George Robey
Possibly Marquee
Finsbury Park Rainbow - not near Central London

I also thought Bank straight away before I saw any of the other comments.

DID YOU MEAN TO BE SO RUDE??
What an odd thing for you to post.

But why would two lads hitching to a gig go there ?

I never went there in the 70's as there was nothing to see or do there for a teenager.

My first thought was trafalgar

I agree that it looks like Whitehall, but that it's not the Duke of Cambridge plinth. I've attached a picture of that and the bit at the bottom that they're sitting on is much higher than the bottom of the DoC plinth. The DoC plinth also has an engraved panel in each end and writing on both sides which would be visible in the photo. You can also see brick work on the photograph, that the DoC plinth doesn't have. I think OP is looking for something on a bigger scale, maybe in Trafalgar Square or Parliament Square (although I looked round the latter on Google maps and can't see anything in the right stone and shape). It also doesn't look like anything else I could spot on Whitehall.

This is it

Try a geoguessr expert on Youtube. They solve challenges like this all the time.

Ask Rainbolt or one of the other geoguesssers.

Remember that back then the north side of Trafalgar Square was open to cars so the walls have all changed

Also a lot of the "bollards" in central London on street view are recent addition anti ram raid work

Long shot but would uploading the photo to ChatGPT help?

My guess is Bank or nearby towards Monument.

Definitely @Blarn is correct