Rob Baker @robnitm
Author of two London history books - Beautiful Idiots & Brilliant Lunatics, and High Buildings, Low Morals. Another book on its way … flashbakshop.com/collections/bo… Heol Senni, Wales Joined September 2009-
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@robnitm Anne Billson suggested I ask you. A friend is trying to identify this London location from 1985. Ignore the bear.
In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language
@robnitm Same spot now? (google streetview)
‘A revolution is on the way, and it’s partly because we no longer take our standards from the tweedy top. All over the country young girls are starting, shouting and shaking, and if they terrify you, they mean to and they are beginning to impress the world’ - Pauline Boty - 1963
Evelyn Laye, who was previously married to Sonnie Hale before he got together with Jessie Matthews, had the "Saddest Face in Films" according to Picturegoer Weekly in July 1934 @robnitm #EvelynLaye #SonnieHale #JessieMatthews
@SianSAllpress @robnitm They've found your Las Vegas Years jumpsuit, @realjahwobble 👍
Any of the Spurs people on here recognise these overalls or know someone who might? They're held by the Westminster menswear archive
The Hole in the Wall ’pub' on the westbound platform of Sloane Square station with its ‘buffet cat’ called Kim. It was open to passengers but also the general public if they purchased a platform ticket. It closed in 1985. Photo John F. Stephenson, 1938.
📷 Rob Baker @robnitm Mimi amongst the pigeons. Trafalgar Square 1971.
If you teach Gatsby, love literature from the 1920s or want a brilliantly written biography on the emergence of the modern age - I can not recommend this book enough. As lively as a Fitzgerald novel and as knowing. @sarahchurchwell
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1 Followers 5 Following@robnitm I think they raised enough for the church roof.
@robnitm I was only five, but it pleases me to feel as if I was alive in an entirely different era.
@Apujolmas @dcairns @robnitm Brilliant! I guessed it would be somewhere in Chinatown due to the glimpse of wind-dried duck, but was inclining more towards Rupert Court.
@cupie_doll @robnitm It was a bakery on the corner when I lived there! Where you’d ask for a loaf and they’d say small or large and which ever size you said they’d say ‘we don’t have that’ 🤣
@robnitm I wonder if any of those cars are still on the road?
@faceyouhate My first was Carleton Hobbes, Norman Shelley as Watson, on BBC radio in 1950s. Others better perhaps, but none more influential.
@BitesSoho @norloll @robnitm @enchantedbyfilm I am late to the party as usual, but excellent podcast.
@robnitm I wonder with old pictures of houses like this whether they were really as filthy as they appear or old b/w photography just makes them look that way.
Yum
@robnitm Got my school uniform there in the 60’s, absolutely love the building!
Still stunning
Odd day yesterday. Spread my parents ashes. My dad had my mum's ashes after she died nearly 16 years ago. So it felt a little odd to be doing both. And put their house on the market too. Even odder to feel like a proper grown up orphan.
Cars have gone to shit. Look at those lovely motors.
Enough is enough. I don't know how we change this culture when it's so tightly woven into the very fabric of our society. All I know is that we must change it. metro.co.uk/2024/04/24/two…
@bfcarlson @robnitm Why don't I we see or hear erudite people speaking like this on or screens and radios any more?
@ian_mcgreevy @robnitm Dumplings Legend on Gerrard Street – great place!