Sandwiches for sale, London 1972, courtesy of Glen Fairweather

Good morning from Fay Wray!

Farringdon Station, Cow Cross Street in 1966 - photo by Libby Hall

Rhiannon Giddens is a singer, a songwriter, a multi-instrumentalist, and even something of a historian, whose work reflects both the universality of folk music and the specific tradition of the Black string band. nyer.cm/BKZKAaL

WAAHHH - slight delay in posting this as it happened yesterday afternoon but the one and only Iggy Pop only went and played not one but TWO track from Pearlies on his show on BBC Radio 6 Music. I mean, amazing or what? Thanks so much, Iggy x. Catch up here: - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The Compton Cinema, The Golden Egg Cafe and Del Monico’s off-license - Old Compton Street, 1966

Charing Cross station in 1964

Don't mess with me!!

Earl's Court Station, 1973 by George Garrigues

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Charlie Jones and the great Arthur Rowe - Arsenal v Spurs, at Highbury, 31st January 1934. Spurs won 1-3. Welsh international Jones was 34 and it was his last season with the gunners.

Eh? Is the The New Yorker gaslighting Patrick Hamilton?

A hand pushed delivery cart owned by Browns Bakeries of Philip Lane, Tottenham, February 1973

A film of mine is being repeated on @BBCFour tonight at 1130 - about the brilliant & intriguing photographer Vivian Maier

Kim Novak is trending. Yes, Vertigo but her best performance is in Strangers When We Meet (1960). It's a performance of raw humanity and abused womanhood in an underseen masterpiece about the fake veneer of 50s domesticity. And it's on YouTube. youtu.be/XsbzxYcApeo?si…

In a bedsit, in this house in Baldwin Crescent Camberwell lived Muriel Spark for 10 years: Ballad of Peckham Rye, Pride of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means. Unaccountably no blue plaque yet

The Beatles on the corner of Rupert Street and Brewer Street, 1963 - photo by Dežo Hoffmann.

Market on Rupert Street in 1961.

Boggling afresh at Biba's opening day menu (Sept 1973). Highlights: fishsnacks, boiled beef, 'Pouffs Pudding”.

Fantastic footage of Portobello Road Market in London’s Notting Hill in 1970.