| ... the Tea Rooms hangs on like some
skid-row staging post in the 1960s documentary The London Nobody
Knows (Mondo Cane for Cockneys fronted by James Mason: "the
gritty historic fabric that was London in the sixtiesfacets of
London life long since forgotten: street markets and their entertainers,
residential slumsthe toughness of what it was to be homeless")...
yellowing exterior signage is offset by a large jolly green deco
typeface hailing from another century... magically washed-up
parlour-style cafe... decked with wall-to-wall carmine mosaic
Formica... Fry ups prepared on an old war-horse cooker called
The London... |
