A bystander, a barfly, a participant, a person sheltering from the weather. All witnessing the cultural scene unfolding in London’s Soho during the 1950s and 1960s. The rise of figures like Francis Bacon and the places they frequented are on show here. In particular Muriel Belcher’s Colony Room Club.

This ‘Madame’ surrounded by her dedicated dutiful serfs – creative, shambolic, alcoholic, witty, intelligent, titled, entitled, depressed, down and out, rich, poor, generous, mean, mean spirited, lose tongued, lose bladdered, condescending, vitriolic, sarcastic, brilliant, banal and yes – even though it was forbidden – occasionally boring.