Rob Baker

My favourite is I’ll Come Running Back to You with the soul stirrers. Just has to be one of the great vocal performances ever. How are things?

I literally didn’t know FC still existed. Perhaps just in Salisbury next to Safeway, Comet and the Edinburgh Woollen Mill

It was one of our books read at school - mid-1970s. And I love the Fritz Lang film Man Hunt sort of based on the novel.

Now in recovery Billy the Cat rewatches his favourite scene in Truffaut’s Day for Night.

1960. Cleo Laine performing at the Flamingo Club’s 'Jazz Nursery' on Wardour Street.

Billy the cat went AWOL for 36 hours but came back this morning with terrible deep cuts all over. Just taken him to vets who said that he’s been run over but will be ok he thinks.

Sleeping lamb in the early morning sun up the road from my house in the Senni valley. bannaubrycheiniogbreconbeacons

Victoria Station in 1974, my first bank account was with Midland. In 1934, apparently, it was the biggest deposit bank in the world

Preparing to build Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's Bankside Power Station (now the Tate Modern) in 1947

Glass covered central heating tower on Pimlico council estate near Dolphin Sq, 1950.

Chelsea Bridge c.1960

I’m quoted in that article and I think really the photograph originally came from me

All set for tomorrow

I think he won the club in a bet

The owner, and whose wife Gina ran the place.

The Gateways lesbian club at 239 King's Road on the corner of Bramerton Street - c.1953, unknown photographer

Legalise Freedom? St Agnes Place, Vauxhall, 1984 - photo by Peter Marshall.

Old Compton Street in 1936

Brian Jones at his flat on Elm Park Lane in Chelsea, 1965. His favourite records at the time were ‘Baby Please Don’t Go’ by Them, Nina Simone’s ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’ and ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ by the Byrds - photo Bent Rej

tram? Where did that come from

My book still seen out in the wild occasionally- this time on a tram from Scotland. I hope you’re enjoying it whoever you are

That sounds interesting, where is the novel based? And is it less minimalist than the cover?

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.

YouTube video by Tottenham Hotspur these dressing room scenes on repeat

Similar vibes in my house last night
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@mhairim.bsky.social ha ha “Mack the Wife”

Not that it particularly answers your question but have they just been sprayed with water? Unfortunately, almost certainly, they are all dead now.

Look how skinny they are, and rationing would only get worse over the next few years.

Outside Guy’s Hospital on VE Day May 1945