Another Nickel In The Machine
A blog about 20th Century London
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London is my beat
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Recent Posts
- 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
- Chinatown, the Death of Billie Carleton and the ‘Brilliant’ Chang
- The Cafe de Paris, the Trial of Elvira Barney and the death of Snakehips Johnson
- Marie Lloyd, Dr Crippen and the Bedford Music Hall in Camden
- The Disappearance of the Author Adam Diment
- Petticoat Lane market and Ras Prince Monolulu
- The Gas Decontamination Centre at the Marshall Street Baths in Soho and Belita – The Ice Maiden
- Caxton Hall in Westminster and the marriage of Diana Dors to Dennis Hamilton
- The London Spy: A Discreet Guide to the City’s Pleasures
- Delicious Food served in the West End during 1943
Where in London
- Barnes (1)
- Battersea (2)
- Belgravia (2)
- Blackfriars Road (1)
- Brixton (4)
- Bromley (1)
- Camden (2)
- Chelsea (6)
- Chinatown (2)
- Denmark Street (1)
- Earls Court (1)
- East End (4)
- Eaton Square (2)
- Eel Pie Island (1)
- Elephant and Castle (1)
- Epsom (1)
- Fitzrovia (1)
- Fulham (1)
- Hampstead (2)
- Heathrow (1)
- Holland Park (3)
- Holloway (1)
- Holloway Road (1)
- Hyde Park (1)
- Islington (2)
- Jermyn Street (1)
- Kensington (1)
- Kings Road (7)
- Knightsbridge (1)
- Limehouse (1)
- London (5)
- Marylebone (5)
- Mayfair (3)
- Notting Hill (1)
- Oxford Street (1)
- Petticoat Lane (1)
- Piccadilly (3)
- Pimlico (1)
- Soho (9)
- South London (4)
- The Strand (1)
- Trafalgar Square (1)
- Twickenham (1)
- Vauxhall (1)
- Wandsworth (1)
- West End (5)
- Westminster (3)
Archives
- July 2010 (1)
- May 2010 (1)
- February 2010 (1)
- January 2010 (1)
- December 2009 (1)
- November 2009 (1)
- October 2009 (1)
- September 2009 (1)
- August 2009 (2)
- July 2009 (2)
- June 2009 (6)
- May 2009 (3)
- April 2009 (5)
- March 2009 (2)
- February 2009 (1)
- January 2009 (2)
- November 2008 (3)
- October 2008 (3)
- September 2008 (1)
- August 2008 (2)
- July 2008 (3)
- June 2008 (2)
- May 2008 (1)
- April 2008 (2)
- March 2008 (4)
- February 2008 (1)
- December 2007 (1)
- November 2007 (1)
- October 2007 (2)
- September 2007 (3)
Blogroll
- And Another Thing
- 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
- Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland site
- London Sound Survey
- Nick Jolly
- No Smoking In The Skullcave
- Raiding The Vinyl Archive
- Route 1 to 499
- Sugartown
- The Ghost Of Electricity
- The Musicologist
- The Songs That People Sing
- Tradescant Road and South Lambeth
- Transpontine
- You're Right You're Right I Know You're Right
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Recent Comments
- Rose commented on The London Spy: A Discreet Guide to the City’s Pleasures
- Joe commented on School’s Out in London and Steve ‘Ginger’ Finch
- Frances Keyland commented on Marie Lloyd, Dr Crippen and the Bedford Music Hall in Camden
- PhatGrrl commented on The Kings Road, the Gateways Club and The Killing Of Sister George
- staceyboy commented on The Kray Twins and The Walker Brothers
- Minka S. Koren commented on The Disappearance of the Author Adam Diment
- Minnie commented on The Epsom Derby and the deaths of Emily Wilding Davison and Herbert ‘Diamond’ Jones
- Minnie commented on Ossie Clark, the King Of The Kings Road in Holland Park
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