I found these at a newsagents near Baker Street, sometime in the mid ’00s. The owners must have been clearing out some dead stock, and were selling boxes full of them for 5p each or something.

These must be the strangest postcards of London I’ve ever seen. It’s difficult to imagine many tourists sending home a hallucinogenic montage of tower blocks, random pedestrians and lens flare, even when these were first on sale. The rear sides provide very little information, just that they were produced by a company called Kardorama based in Potters Bar. Some of them include a title for the image, but these are usually short, and raise more questions than they answer. I’m guessing they date from the first half of the ’80s, based on the fashions: one of the designs shows the London Central Mosque, which was built in 1978, so obviously they can’t be any older than that.

I occasionally like to amuse myself by arranging these into a narrative, depicting an LSD & Amyl Nitrate-fuelled tour of London, ending in a Lynchian death/apotheosis scene.

I hope these give you as much pleasure as they have given me.