Soho Boho

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  @thekajalflaneur · 4 years ago

  The narrator has a voice of boiled honey. I am so glad they included Mr. Crisp in this.

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• SO

  @someonesomeone25 · 3 years ago

  I can't imagine a place like that existing now.  The rich and poor, famous and ordinary, educated and uneducated, all sharing the same pubs and locations is almost unthinkable now.

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• PA

  @paulabennett4788 · 3 years ago

  My parents were always in Soho and would invariably come home drunk with Nina Hamnett and others as we all lived in Paddington by the canal. Lucian was our neighbour and a frequent visitor. He painted my step-father and two paintings of my Mother Ruby of which one is in M O M A. It was a crazy and stimulating life.

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• NE

  @negativelycapable · 3 months ago

  Good documentary, but wanted to make the two points below:<br><br>1. John Deakin did not die from drinking caustic soda - he had an operation for lung cancer, and was recuperating in Brighton at a small hotel - and had a heart attack there. <br><br>2. Colquhoun and MacBryde were not Glaswegians, but from Ayrshire.

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• AL

  @alankilroy04 · 2 months ago

  Excellent documentary. Bit of a late starter, went to Soho from the early 80s and never looked forward.

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• TI

  @tinarennett9041 · 5 years ago

  Jonathan Miller in early street scene.

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• CA

  @caroledrury1411 · 3 years ago

  Stumbling upon this documentary has been quite meaningful. Harold Drury friends with bacon and Dylan Thomas was my father. He had come over from Australia on a grant by Sir Edward marsh who was the secretary of state to Winston Churchill. He was in Soho from 1948 to 1952. Then in 52 went to Paris because that’s where the artists often went. He met my mother at Shakespeare and Company book shop and I was born and raised there. I own about 60 of my fathers paintings and I have always wished I could’ve learned even more about his time in Soho. But certainly this documentary speaks to me in terms of what dad‘s stories were all about. He knew these characters and he certainly knew the haunts.

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• CA

  @carolconner9216 · 2 years ago

  Just watched this again - great introductory to my reading some of the lesser known writers of that era. Sadly, Haight-Ashbury went the same way. Those that stayed behind became caricatures of themselves when the tourists arrived. So it goes - RIP Soho.

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• MI

  @MissPerriwinkle · 1 year ago

  oh to have been there in those days.....

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• RR

  @rropo1 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Loved Soho 1950&apos;s - The Pub, Street and &apos;arty&apos; club characters one encountered - The mischievous ladies standing in doorways - The Jazz, the Coffee bars and the Skiffle! &nbsp;Just walking through in your Duffle coat and battered Trilby, you felt intellectually reinvigorated. Then you got the late bus home to Surbiton and next morning left your faux Bohemian self behind and became once again just another boring bank clerk, plumber or shop assistant! Halcyon days!

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• TO

  @tonyreddrop2098 · 5 years ago

  LOVED it, brilliant.

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• RE

  @RedcoatsReturn · 2 years ago (edited)

  What a wonderful historical cultural documentary 😲👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍

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