Another Nickel In The Machine
A blog about 20th Century London
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Recent Posts
My New Book – High Buildings, Low Morals
The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters
“Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics’ – The Book!
David Hemmings, Blow-Up and the Red Buildings on the Stockwell Road
Children from Hoxton Visit Charlie Chaplin at the Ritz in 1921
Kempton Bunton and the Great Goya Heist at the National Gallery
The Suffragette and Fascist Mary Richardson and the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery.
Warren Street and the Murder of Stan ‘The Spiv’ Setty by Brian Donald Hume in 1949
Pauline Boty, the Anti-Uglies and Bowater House in Knightsbridge
The Honky Tonk Woman – Winifred Atwell and the Railton Road in Brixton.
Wimbledon, ‘Bare-leg’ Tennis, and the Bitter Rivalry Between Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs.
The GLC and how they Nearly Destroyed Covent Garden
The Cenotaph, Alfred Rosenberg, Ada Emma Deane and the Ghost Hunter Harry Price
Mary Quant, the Miniskirt and the Chelsea Palace on the King’s Road
Benny Hill and the Windmill Theatre in Great Windmill Street, Soho
Where in London
Barnes
(1)
Battersea
(4)
Belgravia
(2)
Blackfriars Road
(1)
Brixton
(7)
Bromley
(1)
Camberwell
(1)
Camden
(3)
Chelsea
(8)
Chinatown
(2)
Clapham Common
(1)
Covent Garden
(1)
Denmark Street
(1)
Earls Court
(1)
East End
(4)
Eaton Square
(2)
Eel Pie Island
(1)
Elephant and Castle
(2)
Epsom
(1)
Fitzrovia
(4)
Fulham
(2)
Hampstead
(2)
Heathrow
(1)
Holland Park
(3)
Holloway
(1)
Holloway Road
(1)
Hyde Park
(1)
Islington
(2)
Jermyn Street
(3)
Kensington
(6)
Kings Road
(8)
Knightsbridge
(2)
Lambeth
(1)
Leicester Square
(1)
Limehouse
(1)
London
(26)
Marylebone
(6)
Mayfair
(4)
Notting Hill
(1)
Oxford Street
(1)
Petticoat Lane
(1)
Piccadilly
(10)
Pimlico
(1)
Soho
(17)
South London
(8)
Stockwell
(1)
the City
(1)
The Strand
(1)
Trafalgar Square
(3)
Twickenham
(2)
Vauxhall
(2)
Wandsworth
(1)
Waterloo
(1)
Wembley
(1)
West End
(9)
Westminster
(6)
Whitehall
(2)
Wimbledon
(2)
Archives
November 2017
(1)
September 2017
(1)
November 2015
(1)
September 2015
(1)
September 2014
(1)
May 2014
(1)
July 2013
(1)
April 2013
(1)
February 2013
(1)
October 2012
(1)
June 2012
(1)
May 2012
(1)
April 2012
(1)
February 2012
(1)
January 2012
(2)
December 2011
(1)
July 2011
(1)
May 2011
(1)
April 2011
(1)
February 2011
(1)
January 2011
(1)
December 2010
(1)
July 2010
(1)
May 2010
(1)
February 2010
(1)
January 2010
(1)
December 2009
(1)
November 2009
(1)
October 2009
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September 2009
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August 2009
(2)
July 2009
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June 2009
(6)
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(3)
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(5)
March 2009
(2)
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(1)
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November 2008
(3)
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(1)
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July 2008
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March 2008
(4)
February 2008
(1)
December 2007
(1)
November 2007
(1)
October 2007
(2)
September 2007
(3)
Blogroll
And Another Thing
Beside the B-side
Bob From Brockley
Caroline’s Miscellany
Crying All The Way To The Chip Shop
Doc 40
Dusty Sevens
Faded London
Georgian London
History Is Made At Night
Last-Year Girl
London Sound Survey
Mojo Hannah
No Smoking In The Skullcave
Raiding The Vinyl Archive
Route 1 to 499
Sketches By Boz
Sugartown
The Ghost Of Electricity
The Musicologist
The Songs That People Sing
Tradescant Road and South Lambeth
Transpontine
Recent Comments
Pat Hedger
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The Battle Of Cable Street and, er, Paul Simon
Aidan McManus
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Camden Town, Verlaine and Rimbaud, a toilet, Sid Sods Off and the McAlpine Fusiliers
Shaun on
Mayfair, and the Deaths of Harry Nilsson, Mama Cass and Keith Moon
David Bieda
on
The GLC and how they Nearly Destroyed Covent Garden
Robert Wood on
Brixton and the riots in 1981
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