Review of The London Nobody Knows

I really enjoyed seeing this one-of-a-kind documentary that looks at a forgotten London circa 1967, presented by James Mason, no less. Our Hollywood star tours around various derelict sites, many of them ripe for demolition, and reminisces about the old days of Victorian music halls, egg-breaking factories and the like. We see the grim face of poverty, meths-drinkers brawling in the street, and plenty more besides. This is a documentary all about character with London itself being the character. It has wonderful touches of surreal humour as befitting the era of Eric Sykes and the Pythons, and the footage is quietly awesome.