A new exhibition is bring the glory days of 1960 Walthamstow back to life,

The Vestry House Museum will reveal the day The Beatles came to town while showing how local life was transformed by large housing projects, new shopping parades and the opening of the Victoria Line.

It's new exhibition 'Setting the Scene: Walthamstow in the Sixties' will also show the how students in the area embraced art and activism inspired by the burgeoning hippie movement.

Through colour and black and white photographs, film, art and ephemera from the Museum’s collections, this momentous decade will be brought to life.

Highlights include a film of the Wood Street Walk from 1960 and a photograph showing queues of excited teenagers outside Hoe Street’s Granada Cinema waiting to see The Beatles.

Also on display are magazines and poetry sold by the Tuck Shop, a centre of art and underground literature on Orford Road.

The free exhibition will run at the museum in Vestry Road, Walthamstow, until Sunday, August 27.