Comments on: Soho and the fall of the Dirty Squad (updated) http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/ A blog about 20th Century London Sun, 21 Aug 2022 20:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Soho and the fall of the Dirty Squad (updated) http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-1795760 Soho and the fall of the Dirty Squad (updated) Wed, 30 Dec 2015 06:01:29 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-1795760 capacity…

For over 200 years Soho has always had a somewhat racy reputation. Prostitution had always been relatively open in the area at least until the Street Offences Act of 1959….

]]> By: colin evans http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-1655311 colin evans Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:46:27 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-1655311 Interesting stuff. Soho in the 1960s when I first visited was a tea party at The Ritz compared to what kids put on FB nowadays.
But what kudos to return to our Frozen North homeland after a week in London and boast that we’d walked around Soho.
As for the cops – well, I met many. Crims as well. Often or not it was difficult to distinguish. Unless they were in uniform of course. Robert Mark was an exception, I think, as was his protogee John Stalker.

]]> By: bill james http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-1348296 bill james Sun, 02 Nov 2014 14:40:07 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-1348296 I met George Fenwick in the late 1960′s early seventies. In those days i was
a heavy alcoholic drinker and my lifestyle was pretty bad. I got in a few very
minor scrapes with the law which all changed for the better when I stopped drinking and smoking and hellraising. Looking back to the times i met George I must say he was man of compassion and yes a few mistakes he made but in my view very minor. Just look at Tony Blair, George W Bush, both war criminals, illegal wars, hell awaits them. Dennis McShane, Huhne,
Archer, the list is endless of corrupt politicans, it was forever thus and will continue as long as the human race exists. However back to George, he was a good honest man, wish there were more about like him. Maybe George is still alive, hope he is.

]]> By: aidan mcmanus http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-469475 aidan mcmanus Wed, 22 May 2013 21:43:26 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-469475 I worked in the soho porn trade not long after this all happened and the old bill were still getting bunged,I witnessed several sham raids on bookshops and was told the full story by the unconcerned shop staff”the price of doing business” I was told

]]> By: Katherine Humphreys http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-296544 Katherine Humphreys Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:12:09 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-296544 My Grandfather wasn’t doing anything which you don’t see emblazoned prolifically across the internet and other visual mediums today. The only exception was that the general populas of the day were told that this was moral indecency as was anything attached to nudity or remotely sexual.

Nothing had changed since the days of the scandal surrounding Lady Chatterly’s Lover..look at the furore which surrounded that… Jimmy just made a lot of money making alot of people happy, and when it all went wrong, those so called ‘men of the law’ were served up with nothing that they didn’t deserve…

]]> By: Best of Recent Blogs #26 « London Historians' Blog http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-72371 Best of Recent Blogs #26 « London Historians' Blog Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:43:52 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-72371 [...] Railway Pioneer by Caroline’s Miscellany St Martin’s Gardens by London Cemeteries Soho and the Fall of the Dirty Squad (updated) by Another Nickel in the Machine “A London of Horse Trams with Halfpenny Fares…” [...]

]]> By: Andy http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-69369 Andy Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:30:20 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-69369 I wonder whatever happened to George Fenwick, Bill Moody, Wally Virgo and Kenneth Drury? I can’t suppose they’ll still be alive now.

]]> By: Vince Berkeley http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-43596 Vince Berkeley Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:34:08 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-43596 The porn in Soho was wrong. Lennon’s drawings are filth; Oz was filth. If people want to produce it illicitly ok, but let’s not dignify this degrading rubbish as “freedom of expression”, it’s just filth.

]]> By: Hayden Winters http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-12458 Hayden Winters Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:39:31 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-12458 This posthelped me a lot in my university work. I am writing a paper on a similar topic. I was feeling kinda lost, but it looks like I found what I was looking forand I’m on the right path now. thanks!

]]> By: Matt Patton http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad/comment-page-1/#comment-1814 Matt Patton Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:14:58 +0000 http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/2008/06/soho-and-the-fall-of-the-dirty-squad.html#comment-1814 Let’s face it, the terms “erotic drawings” and “Yoko Ono” are mutually exclusive.

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