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  Another Nickel In The Machine is a blog about 20th century London, its history, its culture and its music. If there's something that you'd like me to include, or perhaps remove, please contact me here. Follow this site on TWITTER @robnitm

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  • Benny Hill and the Windmill Theatre in Great Windmill Street, Soho
  • The Day the Traitors Burgess and Maclean Left Town
  • Two Perfect Women – the meeting of Prunella Stack and and Gertrud Scholtz-Klink at Claridges in 1939
  • Teddy Boys, Christmas Humphreys and the murder of John Beckley on Clapham Common in 1953
  • Marc Blitzstein, Roland Hayes and the ‘Negro Chorus’ at the Royal Albert Hall in 1943
  • The Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street, St James.
  • The Prostitutes’ Padre Harold Davidson and the Lyons Corner House in Coventry Street
  • The Dancer Bobby Britt and the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square
  • St Paul’s Cathedral, Lord Rothermere, and the Second Great Fire of London
  • The Royal Albert Hall, Miss World and the Angry Brigade in 1970
  • The Gateways Club Update
  • The Execution of Lord Haw Haw at Wandsworth Prison in 1946
  • Hampstead Heath and the Rise and Fall of the author Colin Wilson
  • The marriage and death of Judy Garland, Chelsea 1969
  • James Earl Ray’s Arrest at Heathrow in 1968

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