Rob Baker

Author of two London history books - Beautiful Idiots & Brilliant Lunatics, and High Buildings, Low Morals. Another book on its way …

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@TomWardleMusic @IrkthePurists Much better

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@IrkthePurists @ChromeBaby70 I lasted about a minute. It’s awful. I think an old friend of mine was their head roadie - Tec or Tecwyn he was called. His claim to fame was that his dad was in the movie Witchfinder General.

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@IrkthePurists @ChromeBaby70 I’m actually going to have to play it aren’t I?

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A carefree Audrey Hepburn in one of her home movies in 1956.

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@jackseale It would have been easy to make it funny without the smugness

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Remembering actor Roddy McDowall, BOTD 1928, in Herne Hill, London. He worked with some of the great film directors, including Fritz Lang and Orson Welles, was a major star on Broadway and excelled in so many classic TV series. I remain a big fan of his artistic range.

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@PetronellaWyatt "You’re the top, You’re Mussolini, You’re Mrs. Sweeny, You’re Camembert." PG Wodehouse's amended lyrics of the Cole Porter song for the British audiences

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Jumble Sale, Chelsea c.1960 - photos by John Bignell

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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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The Blue Posts pub on the corner of Berwick and Broadwick Street in 1961, 1975 and 1979

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@SeeRedWoman1 John Gielgud's great aunt I think

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Trafalgar Square in 1973

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@hellothisisivan Wrote about him once https://t.co/Qp4a0HK3cy

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David Hemmings outside Pride and Clarke on the Stockwell Road in 1965. From the film 'Blow-Up'.

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Vauxhall Cross in 1985

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Welcome to mini-skirts but not to mini wages. Amalgamated Union of Engineering & Foundry Workers leaflet from 1968.

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@Capt_Fishpaste @henrywinter He’s an Arsenal supporter, I heard it from a friend of his the other day

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@LissaKEvans That is funny

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@iamsanjaypatel @KimEdwards48 I’ve just started watching Columbo. I suddenly realised my whole knowledge of the series came from the myriad of impressions in the 70s and 80s. It’s so good.

[Proust in the Cinema 🇺🇦 @ProustCinema]

Elsa Lanchester and husband Charles Laughton at their Los Angeles home in 1936.