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The Murder of Ali Fahmy At The Savoy Hotel
“What have I done, my dear! What have I done!” Marguerite Fahmy The two court cases were over seventy years apart and the LA suburb of Brentwood is a long way from the relative sophistication of...
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Mayfair and the fall of the hippy squat at 144 Piccadilly
Drug taking, couples making love while others look on, a heavy mob armed with iron bars, filth and stench, foul language, that is the scene inside the hippies’ fortress in London’s Piccadilly. The...
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The Cafe de Paris, the Trial of Elvira Barney and the death of Snakehips Johnson
Elvira Barney arriving at her parents house at 6 Belgrave Square, 7th July 1932 Visiting England apparently on a whim and a year before she appeared in her first film late in 1925, Louise Brooks became...
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The Dancer Bobby Britt and the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square
Police photograph of Bobby Britt and his party guests at his flat at 25 Fitzroy Square, January 1927 At one in the morning on 16th January 1927 Superintendent George Collins of the Metropolitan police...
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The Prostitutes’ Padre Harold Davidson and the Lyons Corner House in Coventry...
The Rector of Stiffkey, Harold Davidson with Estelle Douglas 1932 ‘It is very hard to be good, once you have been bad.’ - Barbara Harris The Reverend Harold Francis Davidson, the Rector of the small...
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The Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street, St James.
Savoy Turkish Bath in Duke of York Street, 1951 - "A vigorous lathering on a marble slab with a wooden pillow." Late in 1951, on a cold foggy afternoon, the type that only London in those days could...
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The Day the Traitors Burgess and Maclean Left Town
Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess Guy Burgess woke at around 9.30 on the morning of Friday, 25 May 1951 in his untidy, musty-smelling bedroom. Next to his bed was an overflowing...
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Benny Hill and the Windmill Theatre in Great Windmill Street, Soho
Benny Hill in his sixties heyday. “The notion that Benny was a lonely man is so depressing and wrong. He just liked his own company. He was very happy walking alone, living alone, eating alone, taking...
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Children from Hoxton Visit Charlie Chaplin at the Ritz in 1921
Charlie Chaplin at the Ritz with 50 children from Hoxton in 1921. Charlie Chaplin was woken up on the morning 17 September 1921 while in his bed at the Ritz Hotel on Piccadilly. “Visitors from Hoxton”...
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