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Rob Baker

@robnitm.bsky.social
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Author of two London history books - 'Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics' and 'High Buildings, Low Morals' - I'm currently doing up a 18th Century cottage in the Brecon Beacons which seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time.

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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 · 04/09/2026
Very good pod I thought
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love this song. His partner is an old friend of mine, we used to work in a shop together. About a million years ago.
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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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davyh @davyh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Brilliantly written about by @robnitm.bsky.social
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The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson's Macabre Mayfair Flat - Flashbak
Marianne 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...
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Such a good show Mr Miller! I love those Lulu records
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pauline 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...
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The Tragic Story of the Artist Pauline Boty - Flashbak
"A blonde, vivacious girl, filled with joie de vivre. She was stunning" - Lewis Morley
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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 · 11/06/2026
The World Cup is on!
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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 · 06/05/2026
Victoria in 1962
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’ve got a friend who takes me to the theatre. It’s always such a struggle for me
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Vauxhall in 1985
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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 · 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 · 09/03/2026
I thought that must be the meaning of
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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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Paul Whitelaw @paulwhitelaw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I've never seen this before, it's lovely - Michael Nesmith performing Propinquity on The David Frost Show in 1971.
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Me too, big time
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Really reminds me of Bob Hyde photos from the 1960s - have you seen them? flashbak.com/stunning-pic...
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Stunning Pictures of London's West End by Bob Hyde c.1965 - Flashbak
London’s West-End by Bob Hyde These photographs were taken by Bob Hyde who was always taking photos and never without a camera. He studied and then taught at St. Martin’s – perhaps where he was when t...
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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 · 16/02/2026
I’m very disappointed with this. What on earth is wrong with someone like Paul Gascoigne or Glen Hoddle?
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
‘Rye Lane’ is an underseen rom-com gem baltimorebeat.com/rye-lane-is-...
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‘Rye Lane’ is an underseen rom-com gem
Modern 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”…
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Me too
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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 · 13/02/2026
I’ve only seen one picture of him but he looks the kind of man who when he says come in at 10am for training you come in at 9.30am
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Was at the excellent Hop In in Brecon..how are you my lovely friend? Come and see me soon. x
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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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
What a great name
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Do you frequent it often? I’m not sure about experimental cocktails. I’m currently writing a book about the history of Gerrard Street. A street of clubs if there ever was one. I’m hoping to deliver it in the summer. How are you?
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I was interested in the comments and I wrote to the “magazine” to try and get hold of them but to no avail. I think the club goes back decades
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
That’s great!
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Rob Baker @robnitm.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I wrote that! Not for that publication tho’. Hmm.
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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 · 07/02/2026
1972
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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 · 09/06/2025
Legalise Freedom? St Agnes Place, Vauxhall, 1984 - photo by Peter Marshall.
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