Depends what you understand by “typically English”
Dick van Dyke’s cheeky Cockney chappie?
City gents in pinstripes and bowlers?
Salt of the earth Pearly Kings and Queens, or 1950’s Debs’ delights?
I would dispute that LONDON was ever “typically English”. It has for centuries been a multi cultural melting pot - from the Huguenot silk weavers, to the Eastern European refugees, to the Jewish migrants, to the Bangladeshi inhabitants of Brick Lane. Probably starting with the Romans and, a century later, the Normans!
It is nothing like a Cotswold village or a Yorkshire moor or a West Country cream tea or a Fenland landscape.
I think OP is living in a fantasy world as close to “English” as “Brigadoon” is to the real Scotland.