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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Lee 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.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Traffic 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).

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Benny Hill in his kichen at his flat at 1-2 Queensgate, May 1969.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Fleet Street in February, 1971. What sort of food did an Old Kentucky restaurant sell?

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ladbroke Grove in 1988 - photo by Peter Marshall

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

1954: 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.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A 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.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Sink 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.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Sue 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.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Lovecraft on Tottenham Court Road in 1971.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A 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.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Alexis Korner with @PPArnold1 at a CND rally near St Paul's Cathedral, 15th April 1968.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Is Jim Rockford using Cockney rhyming slang?

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

London Fish Dinner at 275, Strand in 1884 (Opposite W.H. Smith & Son’s)

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Joan Crawford asks her assistant to bite off a loose thread from her dress at the Dorchester Hotel, London, July 1956 - photograph by Thurston Hopkins.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Rupert Street Market in Soho, 1965 - photographer unknown

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Menu at Veeraswamy’s, 99 Regent Street from November 1945. It included a Theatre Service and a weather forecast.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Veeraswamy's menu from March 1944

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Backstage at Lindsay Kemp. 1974. Patrick Cargill, Larry Parnes, Lindsay, Danny La Rue, Peter Wyngarde. Photo by Mick Rock

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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?

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The Amalgamated Union of Engineering & Foundry Workers take on mini-skirts in 1968. The foundry section alone had approximately 72,000 members.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The 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

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Golly’s Garage on the corner of the Earl’s Court Road and Cromwell Road c. 1935

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Frank Auerbach at the LCC Open Air Exhibition, July 1948, Embankment Gardens, London. Photo - Dan Farson.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Paul Robeson, Anna May Wong and Peking opera artist Mei Lanfang, outside Claridges in 1935.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Anna May Wong, who was born on this day in 1905, in her London flat in 1928

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Views of Pen y Fan and Corn Du on a walk from my house yesterday

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Bankside and its surroundings, January 1947- the old Bankside power station on the left - St Paul's cathedral just visible through the mist.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

90 years ago, this was the menu at the Trocadero's Arctic Night New Year's Eve party, 1935-36

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Peter Cook at the Establishment Club, 18 Greek Street in 1962

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Dancing at the Sunset Club, a jazz and calypso club, situated at 50 Carnaby Street - December 1951

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Brigitte Bardot in the Coach and Horses on Bruton Lane, photos by Ray Bellisario in 1968

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

My 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.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Bob Dylan playing at the Singers Club at the Pindar of Wakefield pub, 328 Grays Inn Road December, 1962. The pub was said to be a favourite of Lenin’s some 60 years previously. Photo by Brian Shuel.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Jon Pertwee and his wife Ingeborg Rhoesa entertaining Pertwee’s brother and his wife, Boxing Day, 1966.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Boxing Day, Hampstead Heath in 1938

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Hampstead Heath, December 1938. Photograph by Frederick G Roper

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Christopher Lee, Hazel Court and Anton Diffring at the Hammer Christmas party in 1958. They were filming The Man Who Could Cheat Death at Bray Studios.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Terence Rattigan in his apartment at Albany, Piccadilly in 1948. His ‘Playbill' opened at the Phoenix Theatre, London, on 8 September that year.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The actress Valerie Hobson in her drawing room at 3 Chester Terrace, Regent’s Park - her home was featured in House & Garden magazine in February 1961 - 5 months before her husband John Profumo embarked on an affair with Christine Keeler. Photo by Ray Williams.

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Peter Ustinov, Christopher Fry and Kenneth Tynan drinking in the Nag’s Head pub in Covent Garden, 1955

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

From a Nancy Banks-Smith review of ‘Pennies From Heaven’ - "It has a quite remarkable performance by Bob Hoskins as Arthur, the traveller in dreams. A bun-faced man but with, as Potter says at one point, dilating on the delights of doughnuts, “quite half a pound of jam in him.”

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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My 88 year old mum, despite the cold and non-stop rain, enjoying what Abergavenny ‘spoons has to offer.

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