Monday, 24 September 2012

V-Cars HQ




The entrance to the underground headquarters of V-Cars is situated in the disused tram tunnel in Kingsway

Bar Italia



                                         Frith Street

V-Cars vehicles




Favourite transport includes modified Daimler ambulances and Humber Pullman hearses

Sunday, 23 September 2012

V-Cars; a typical night's work






Francis Bacon [and others]


Fact is blended with fiction.The famous Colony Room of Dean Street might be the Golden Crocodile of Meard Street.Or it might not.And where did Francis Bacon get the idea for the weirdly distorted characters he painted?

Soho 1958





'Paint it Black' is a 65-page graphic novel written by Stephen Walsh featuring Commander 'Paraffin' Jack MacNab of the Scotland Yard Vampire Squad .It's set in the meticulously researched Soho of the 1950's.