Nigeyb’s Reviews > Soho in the Fifties > Status Update

The swinging sixties and, even more, the cynical seventies came close to destroying the spirit of Soho.

Interesting to read, in amongst the romanticised memories of the Colony Room, an acknowledgement of the morbidity of all day drinking club: you feel like the fish in the tank above the cash register, swimming aimlessly among artificial water weeds, mindless in warm water.

John Deakin, one of the finest photographers of the twentieth century