: ' london’s toilets'
Toilet Caper
ondon’s lost loos, were until the 1950s famous the world over, these magnificent Victorian edifices, both decorative as well as functional, were built in the first place simply that the government saw them as essential to [...]
Goldilocks Hotels are just right
The ignominy, being thrown out of a hotel for the second time; it happened to me last week quite unexpectedly. The hotel in question, which uses Scotland’s national flower for its trademark, has decided that cabbies [...]
100 years down the drain
Readers of a delicate disposition should log off now for today’s post is about well . . . spending a penny. With a surname like Crapper you would have thought another choice of vocation would have [...]
An In-Convenience Truth
Westminster Council who aspires to become the most anti-social borough in London must be fearful that it is in danger of losing its ranking. For not content with pursuing a regime of traffic enforcement that the [...]
The Human Lavatory
Gentle reader one day you will come, as I have now, to a time in your life when finding a toilet becomes not a distraction but a necessity. London loos, until the 1950s, were famous the [...]
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
It is tempting to wring one's hands over what one sees as evidence of
A blinking nuisance
Blimey! I didn't know that. I really can't remember a time when they d
A blinking nuisance
Try to keep Percy calm, with the start of spring he might want to take
A blinking nuisance
Belisha Beacons did not originally flash. The first beacons were insta
A blinking nuisance
I've just come back from lunch via the 2nd worst crossing on the list.