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The Knowledge, The Play
The producers would have to be possessed with the tenacity and belief in their project, as any aspiring student of The Knowledge, to achieve their badge [...]
Parliamentary peculiars
Anomalies are to be found in the Palace of Westminster [...]
Orange Cab
old cabs never die [...]
Mummified Londoners
The real head was displayed in the same case for many years, but became the target of repeated student pranks including being stolen on more than one occasion [...]
Taxed beyond death
Here are a few of London's strangest payments of tax [...]
A culinary classic
Wilton’s is the oldest restaurant in London [...]
Rolling Stone
London’s most travelled artefact has moved yet again. London Stone, a Grade II* chunk of limestone some 20″ wide, 16″ high and 17″ deep of a substance (oolitic) that is not local to the London area [...]
The first A-Z
The story is almost certain in the main untrue, the first street-indexed map of London was drawn up in 1623 by John Norden [...]
Walk the Line
For the purposes of CabbieBlog London starts –and ends – at the M25. So to start following the Meridian Line we have to commence at precisely that point on the motorway [...]
The first London cab
In 1897, the first motor cabs appeared in London. They were electrically powered and called Berseys, after the manager of the London Electrical Cab Company, Walter C. Bersey [...]
The Knowledge Special Offer
Special offer to cabbies and KoL boys and girls for the forthcoming play at The Charing Cross Theatre.
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Regular bloggery from a Black London Licensed Cabbie.
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Daily London Trivia
In 24 July 1936 the Speaking Clock spoke for the first time from Dollis Hill #LDNTrivia
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What I’m Reading
The Churchill Factor by Boris Johnson
After Boris has decimated the London cab trade it pains me to have to acknowledge that this is the most readable biography on Churchill I’ve read. Broken down into facets of Churchill’s life rather than chronologically it makes for a fascinating read.
London Links
Green cab shelters
What a wonderful memory. I'm hoping to try to write a definitive accou
Green cab shelters
My godmother Mrs Beatty ran the Warwick Avenue shelter and on occasion
'Mrs' Everest
JKR writes superb fiction, while I write (hopefully) facts, in a medio
'Mrs' Everest
Super article packed with suspense. Another JK Rowling in the making.
Ancient Inns of the Borough High Street–continued
We have Adrian Prockter to thank for these two posts about Borough Hig