Rob Baker

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...

Really reminds me of Bob Hyde photos from the 1960s - have you seen them? flashbak.com/stunning-pic...

Rupert Street Market in Soho, 1965 - photographer unknown

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

I’m very disappointed with this. What on earth is wrong with someone like Paul Gascoigne or Glen Hoddle?

‘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”…

‘Rye Lane’ is an underseen rom-com gem baltimorebeat.com/rye-lane-is-...

Me too

Veeraswamy's menu from March 1944

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

Was at the excellent Hop In in Brecon..how are you my lovely friend? Come and see me soon. x

Backstage at Lindsay Kemp. 1974.

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

What a great name

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?

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

That’s great!

I wrote that! Not for that publication tho’. Hmm.

"More Champagne"! - Francis Bacon in the Toucan Club, 1980. Can anyone tell me anything about the club on Gerrard Street?

1972

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

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

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

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

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

I love this!

I think Labour’s NEC or whoever can sort these things should choose Labour’s southernmost seat for Burnham - say Portsmouth South

Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman: The Very Day I'm Gone BBC Radio 3's Late Junction is a treasure, so of course the station's controllers can't stop cutting it. It once ran for two hours, three ti...

Liberal England... Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman: The Very Day I'm Gone

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

Horse Guards Parade, 1971

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