I left school and home when I was 17 and, on the dole in 1978, supplemented my income working for a woman in her late 30s whose sugar daddy had put her up in a flat in a mansion block off Edgware Road. He rarely visited, and in fact died while I was in her employ. The family forbade her from attending the funeral and I realise now her tenancy was likely quite shaky.
‘Cheap bottle red wine (£1.20p)’: Life on the margins in Marble Arch in 1978 with Pat Booth, Roddy Llewellyn and Joe Strummer
Jun 13th, 2019
Roger Burton on the Michael Hochong collection
Nov 4th, 2011
Following yesterday’s post about the exhibition of Michael Hochong’s incredible clothes, the Horse Hospital’s Roger Burton has given an account of how he came by the collection and his personal connection to this “very beautiful man”.
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