Geoffrey Fletcher, The London nobody knows. Penguin Books 1965. A fabulous book, still available in the Used Books section at Amazon. But there's more — only this month the documentary of the same title was made available on DVD. Here's a review in the Guardian, and of course, it's already on YouTube. Anyway, both book and DVD are highly recommended.[...] The London Nobody Knows, a 1967 documentary stroll around the city with James Mason. No horseguards, no palaces, but Islington's Chapel Market, pie shops, and Spitalfields tenements. Carnaby chicks and chaps, the 1967 we have been led to remember, are shockingly juxtaposed with feral meths drinkers, filthy shoeless kids, squalid Victoriana. Camden Town still resembles the world of Walter Sickert. There is romance and adventure, but mostly there is malnourishment. London looks like a shithole. 
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