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  Another Nickel In The Machine is a blog about 20th century London, its history, its culture and its music. If there's something that you'd like me to include, or perhaps remove, please contact me here. Follow this site on TWITTER @robnitm

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• Recent Posts

  • My New Book – High Buildings, Low Morals
  • The Prince of Wales Theatre, Dickie Henderson and the Ross Sisters
  • “Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics’ – The Book!
  • David Hemmings, Blow-Up and the Red Buildings on the Stockwell Road
  • Children from Hoxton Visit Charlie Chaplin at the Ritz in 1921
  • Kempton Bunton and the Great Goya Heist at the National Gallery
  • The Suffragette and Fascist Mary Richardson and the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery.
  • Warren Street and the Murder of Stan ‘The Spiv’ Setty by Brian Donald Hume in 1949
  • Pauline Boty, the Anti-Uglies and Bowater House in Knightsbridge
  • The Honky Tonk Woman – Winifred Atwell and the Railton Road in Brixton.
  • Wimbledon, ‘Bare-leg’ Tennis, and the Bitter Rivalry Between Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs.
  • The GLC and how they Nearly Destroyed Covent Garden
  • The Cenotaph, Alfred Rosenberg, Ada Emma Deane and the Ghost Hunter Harry Price
  • Mary Quant, the Miniskirt and the Chelsea Palace on the King’s Road
  • Benny Hill and the Windmill Theatre in Great Windmill Street, Soho

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• Recent Comments

  • Pat Hedger on The Battle Of Cable Street and, er, Paul Simon
  • Aidan McManus on Camden Town, Verlaine and Rimbaud, a toilet, Sid Sods Off and the McAlpine Fusiliers
  • Shaun on Mayfair, and the Deaths of Harry Nilsson, Mama Cass and Keith Moon
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