Comments on: More Bob Mazzer On The Tube

By: Bob Richardson

Bob Richardson — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:06:06 +0000

Lord Mustard was one of a kind. He had a regular pitch outside of Bayswater tube station in 1977 and I remember his unique style. Nobody tap-danced quite like Lord M.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:30:23 +0000

Thank you (again) for introducing me to such an amazing photographer. I think every Londoner has an instinctive love of the underground, it’s hardwired in us, and these photographs speak to me in so many ways.

By: Alex Daw

Alex Daw — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 20:24:26 +0000

Love that woman sticking her tongue out in the first photo. What a scream. And how fabulous that she was wearing a pink jumper in all that drab grey. I almost missed her.

By: rod warner

rod warner — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:52:48 +0000

Some wonderful shots here and in the other sequences. Takes me back to a different, funkier London. Especially liked the one of Lord Mustard/AKA Earl of Mustard/Jumping Jack whom I knew very well – busked with him in the sixties and seventies and learned a lot. A character indeed. Last time I saw him he was staying with me in Nottingham in the 80’s then he took off for Newcastle and was never seen again. Interesting about the info on him turning up in Oxford – was talking to another busker from the old West End days a few weeks ago about him and we wondered what had become of him. RIP, Norman Norris…

By: Cherub

Cherub — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:20:08 +0000

The boy looking out from between the gap in the doors reminds me of something I saw on the way home one Friday night in the 80s. A City gent ran to get on the tube at Monument and just managed to get on as the doors were closing. Sadly, the doors chopped off the bunch of flowers he was taking home for his wife. The guys I worked with used to take flowers home on Fridays to make up for being late back from work every night.

By: alpha

alpha — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:58:46 +0000

Beautiful, thank you!

By: Jimmy A

Jimmy A — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 07:11:53 +0000

Excellent to see Lord Mustard. He is featured in “The London Nobody Knows”, a wonderful 1967 documentary film presented by James Mason (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-OQgpdQHQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player). Later he moved to Oxford and was a regular feature of the street scene when I was a student in the early 1990s, tap dancing on the Cornmarket to country and western numbers in a rainbow fright wig. He died about 5 years ago at the age of 1996, still tap dancing until the very end.

By: Alison Sye

Alison Sye — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 21:06:47 +0000

Wow! I thought I’d enjoyed the other ones until I saw these. Thanks so much for that trip down memory lane with Lord Mustard.

By: denise merrill

denise merrill — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:09:32 +0000

i love the last photograph – that beautiful face staring back at us over the years, yet how many people noticed him at the time? What an eye for humanity Bob has.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:44:04 +0000

Bonus pictures! The people being photographed really engaged with the camera. Fascinating stuff!