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Exploding the legend
Ask most children in England what happens on the 5th November and they would tell you that it is Guy Fawkes night. It is a night we commemorate when in 1605 some Catholics in England expecting the new Stuart [...]
A close shave
For many years I’ve thought of Sweeny Todd as an urban myth, alongside Robin Hood and King Arthur, but a book by the late Peter Haining Sweeny Todd: The Real Story of The Demon Barber of [...]
Eyes forward
riving a London cab gives you a panoramic view both of the road and into other drivers’ vehicles as they stop beside you and it was with that advantage a couple of years ago I noticed [...]
Sidney Street Siege
One hundred years ago today an incident occurred in east London that brought to the public’s attention a man that 28 years later would lead Britain in its fight against Hitler. In the first decade of [...]
Regular bloggery from a Black London Licensed Cabbie.
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What I’m Reading
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
This is not just about the Underground, London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams to Roman amphitheatres and Victorian sewers.
Metro
The people at the Metro have asked me to give my views about London
Radio Taxis
Find out about what London cabbies think of working in their city
Urban philistines
A website about bridges- interesting. Thanks for your comment
Prince of Wales Lodges
Thanks my head is getting bigger as I write.
Urban philistines
Thank you again for your full and detailed comment. Best of luck with
London's hyper-local blogs
I have added Tradescant Road and South Lambeth a hyperlocal blog. Than
Welsh rare bit
Thanks for your comment that's intriguing. That only other information