Blog: Another Nickel In The Machine

Marie Lloyd at home in 1921, a year before she died. 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 literally putrefying remains of an old music hall theatre. The building was the Bedford Music Hall on Camden High Street and it was said to be Marie Lloyd's favourite place to perform. Unfortunately the theatre closed permanently in 1959 and the sad, [...]

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