Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Lee Miller's Torso being cast by Paul Hamann and assistant, London, 1939 by Roland Penrose. Hall and sideboard, Farleys House, Farleys House & Gallery by Tony Tree. 042
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Traffic warden Mrs Ives crashes an Ossie Clark/Michael Rainey photoshoot on the Fulham Road in September 1967. The models Elisa Ngai and Bill Chenail (Elisa’s Ossi dress sold for 6gns, bill's Kaftan 9gns). 1144
Reposted by Rob Bakerdavyh @davyh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Brilliantly written about by @robnitm.bsky.socialflashbak.comThe Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson's Macabre Mayfair Flat - FlashbakMarianne Faithfull pointed at a pale man sitting next to her and told a reporter, rather optimistically, that Oliver Musker, the twenty-seven-year- old Old Etonian she was seeing at the time and who h... 141
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Pauline Boty died #OTD sixty years ago in 1966. She's one of my absolute heroes and I once wrote about her, and her involvement in the Anti-Uglies... flashbak.com/the-artist-p...flashbak.comThe Tragic Story of the Artist Pauline Boty - Flashbak"A blonde, vivacious girl, filled with joie de vivre. She was stunning" - Lewis Morley 2218
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Benny Hill in his kichen at his flat at 1-2 Queensgate, May 1969. 3131
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Fleet Street in February, 1971. What sort of food did an Old Kentucky restaurant sell? 270
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/06/20261954: The Lollard Adventure playground, just off Lambeth Walk. You can just see the Palace of Westminster in the distance, not much more than half a mile away. 2131
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026A wee lamb a bit late to the party. An early morning view over the Senni Valley, 30 mins walk from my house in Heol Senni. 0282
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Sink in an Earls Court hotel room in 1977. There’s an electric coin meter connected to the hot water tap, a vintage car waste bin, and to cope with it all there’s a glass of Teachers whisky on the tv. 2150
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Sue McGregor & Charles Stokes, BBC reporters for "World At One" try and fry an egg at Piccadilly Circus in 1968. The temperature reached 32 degrees on July 1st. 110
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026A nine year old Ian Dury and his mum Peggy at the Festival of Britain in 1951. Ian had contracted Polio two years previously, most likely, he believed, from a swimming pool at Southend-on-Sea during the 1949 polio epidemic. 03413
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Alexis Korner with @PPArnold1 at a CND rally near St Paul's Cathedral, 15th April 1968. 061
Reposted by Rob BakerRob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Bankside and its surroundings, January 1947- the old Bankside power station on the left - St Paul's cathedral just visible through the mist. 1389
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026London Fish Dinner at 275, Strand in 1884 (Opposite W.H. Smith & Son’s) 1168
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Joan Crawford asks her assistant to bite off a loose thread from her dress at the Dorchester Hotel, London, July 1956 - photograph by Thurston Hopkins. 03511
Reposted by Rob BakerPaul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I've never seen this before, it's lovely - Michael Nesmith performing Propinquity on The David Frost Show in 1971. 68521
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Rupert Street Market in Soho, 1965 - photographer unknown 2506
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Menu at Veeraswamy’s, 99 Regent Street from November 1945. It included a Theatre Service and a weather forecast. 1173
Reposted by Rob BakerBaltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026‘Rye Lane’ is an underseen rom-com gem baltimorebeat.com/rye-lane-is-...baltimorebeat.com‘Rye Lane’ is an underseen rom-com gemModern romantic comedies, rare as they have become, have a tendency to feel fixated on the main couple and not the world that they live in. Think back to the famous “I’ll have what she’s having”… 0136
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Backstage at Lindsay Kemp. 1974. Patrick Cargill, Larry Parnes, Lindsay, Danny La Rue, Peter Wyngarde. Photo by Mick Rock 185
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 07/02/2026"More Champagne"! - Francis Bacon in the Toucan Club, 1980. Can anyone tell me anything about the club on Gerrard Street? 4155
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The Amalgamated Union of Engineering & Foundry Workers take on mini-skirts in 1968. The foundry section alone had approximately 72,000 members. 071
Reposted by Rob BakerRob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Legalise Freedom? St Agnes Place, Vauxhall, 1984 - photo by Peter Marshall. 082
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The Gerrard Street Telephone Exchange building was built in 1906-1907 to the designs of Leonard Stokes, who happened to be married to the daughter of the General Manager of the National Telephone Company. The building at 32-35 Gerrard Street was replaced in the mid-1930s 071
Reposted by Rob BakerRob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Peter Ustinov, Christopher Fry and Kenneth Tynan drinking in the Nag’s Head pub in Covent Garden, 1955 3298
Reposted by Rob BakerRob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Terence Rattigan in his apartment at Albany, Piccadilly in 1948. His ‘Playbill' opened at the Phoenix Theatre, London, on 8 September that year. 082
Reposted by Rob BakerJonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Liberal England... Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman: The Very Day I'm Goneliberalengland.blogspot.comNora Brown and Stephanie Coleman: The Very Day I'm GoneBBC Radio 3's Late Junction is a treasure, so of course the station's controllers can't stop cutting it. It once ran for two hours, three ti... 112
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Golly’s Garage on the corner of the Earl’s Court Road and Cromwell Road c. 1935 0141
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Frank Auerbach at the LCC Open Air Exhibition, July 1948, Embankment Gardens, London. Photo - Dan Farson. 0126
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Paul Robeson, Anna May Wong and Peking opera artist Mei Lanfang, outside Claridges in 1935. 0170
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Anna May Wong, who was born on this day in 1905, in her London flat in 1928 1175
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Views of Pen y Fan and Corn Du on a walk from my house yesterday 2453
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Bankside and its surroundings, January 1947- the old Bankside power station on the left - St Paul's cathedral just visible through the mist. 1389
Reposted by Rob BakerAnne Margaret Daniel 🌻 @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social · 01/01/20262025 was a horrible year. I'm so very glad to see the end of it. Happy New Year from Samuel Beckett and me. Go be kind x 041
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 01/01/202690 years ago, this was the menu at the Trocadero's Arctic Night New Year's Eve party, 1935-36 1102
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Peter Cook at the Establishment Club, 18 Greek Street in 1962 071
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Dancing at the Sunset Club, a jazz and calypso club, situated at 50 Carnaby Street - December 1951 1175
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses on Bruton Lane, photos by Ray Bellisario in 1968 1112
Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/12/2025My late stepfather was evacuated from Folkestone to Merthyr Tydfil during WW2. Here’s a page from his diary in December 1940. “Went out to dig up incendiary bombs” as you do. 0101