Norman Cohen - The London Nobody Knows (1967)

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From the BBC:
Buildings have gone up and come down, the fashions and the cars have changed but the old world has not completely vanished.

A recently rediscovered 1967 documentary entitled “The London Nobody Knows”, features screen legend James Mason, who hunts around the city’s lesser known haunts and excavates some hidden treasures from amongst the darkest corners of the capital.

The irony is that much of the world illuminated by the documentary and its director, Norman Cohen, has gone from the spotlight into the sunlight as historians and developers unearth and reclaim the capital.

Amongst the pearls, Mason looks at the Wren’s House sat between the Globe and Tate Modern (though from a time before either existed in their present incarnations) and from where the master architect could survey the building of his masterpiece across the river, St Paul’s.

The actor also basks in the warm glow of the old sewer lights, powered by methane from the sewers and lit by a lamplighter.

Bob Stanley of St. Etienne on The London Nobody Knows
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Norman Cohen - The London Nobody Knows (1967)

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