Another Nickel In The Machine
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Located London, London United Kingdom
Another Nickel In The Machine is about 20th Century London. Its culture and its history. It covers music, gossip, murder, sex and death. You know, everything really.
Latest Blog Posts
- James Earl Ray’s Arrest at Heathow in 1968 on Nov 21, 2009 in Earls Court Heathrow Pimlico assassination hotel Martin Luther King murder sixties
At 11 o’clock in the morning on Saturday, June 8th 1968 an immigration officer at Heathrow Airport took a look at a passenger’s Canadian passport and said; “Would you please step into our office for some routine questions, Mr Sneyd&...
- James Earl Ray’s Arrest at Heathrow in 1968 on Nov 21, 2009 in Earls Court Heathrow Pimlico assassination hotel Martin Luther King murder sixties
At 11 o’clock in the morning on Saturday, June 8th 1968 an immigration officer at Heathrow Airport took a look at a passenger’s Canadian passport and said; “Would you please step into our office for some routine questions, Mr Sneyd&...
- Chinatown, the Death of Billie Carleton and the ‘Brilliant’ Chang on Oct 25, 2009 in Chinatown East End Limehouse West End cocaine death drugs food opium racism sex
A young pretty actress called Billie Carlton had a starring role on stage at the huge Victory Ball held at the Albert Hall on 28th November 1918. Tatler had a few months previously described one of her appearances on a London stage, saying that she h...
- Chinatown, the Death of Billie Carleton and the ‘Brilliant’ Chang on Oct 25, 2009 in Chinatown East End Limehouse West End cocaine death drugs food opium racism sex
A young pretty actress called Billie Carlton had a starring role on stage at the huge Victory Ball held at the Albert Hall on 28th November 1918. Tatler had a few months previously described one of her appearances on a London stage, saying that she h...
- The Cafe de Paris, the Trial of Elvira Barney and the death of Snakehips Johnson on Sep 29, 2009 in Knightsbridge Piccadilly West End bombs drugs jazz Louise Brooks Marion Harris murder WW2
Visiting England apparently on a whim and a year before she made her first film late in 1925, a seventeen year-old Louise Brooks became a dancer at the Cafe de Paris in Coventry Street and it was here that she reputedly became the first person to dan...
- The Cafe de Paris, the Trial of Elvira Barney and the death of Snakehips Johnson on Sep 29, 2009 in Knightsbridge Piccadilly West End bombs drugs jazz Louise Brooks Marion Harris murder WW2
Visiting England apparently on a whim and a year before she made her first film late in 1925, a seventeen year-old Louise Brooks became a dancer at the Cafe de Paris in Coventry Street and it was here that she reputedly became the first person to dan...
- Marie Lloyd, Dr Crippen and the Bedford Music Hall in Camden on Aug 14, 2009 in Camden Holloway funeral Metropolitan Police murder music hall trial
There is a strange, but rather brilliant documentary, directed in 1967 by Norman Cohen, called The London Nobody Knows, the beginning of which features a slightly incongruous James Mason, in very smart polished shoes, gingerly stepping over the lite...
