Pootling around London
March 06, 2018 - (0) commentsAs a bonus, for your support, each month two long-form posts from my book Pootling around London, a travelogue about riding around London exploring the capital’s traditions, tripe and trivia, whilst undertaking The Knowledge will be published on CabbieBlog exclusively for Patrons. Each includes a single ‘run’ on The Knowledge: the journey; notes and observations from the present; facts and urban myths; historical accounts of places on the route; and occasional insights
Sunday Best
December 30, 2016 - 2 CommentsI’m now posting nuggets of triviality every Sunday. Each post will have a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information.
They may be read on a weekly basis or one could dip in and out, either when collating questions for a pub quiz; bore your colleagues at work; or just to send yourself off to sleep.
Run for the Hills
February 28, 2014 - (0) commentsOn the night of 7th January 1928 the Embankment wall collapsed near Lambeth Bridge, right opposite the Tate. Flood water poured across the road destroying homes and forcing local residents in one of London’s most deprived areas to swim for their lives.
Jump on a bus
February 18, 2014 - 2 CommentsOne of my favourite London films is Brannigan, starring John Wayne as a Chicago detective. It is as if Visit London had commissioned Paul Greengrass to direct a travel documentary aimed at American tourists.
His body was exhumed, the head reaffixed to the body and he sat unknowingly for his portrait [...]
Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]
“Mr Lippiat, he’s a real gent, wait until you get Ormes”, my inquisitor warned me. What had I taken on? If that was easy how traumatic is this going to get, and looking at [...]
We challenge our contributor to reply to ten devilishly probing questions about their London and we don’t take “Sorry Gov” for an answer [...]
The clock's numbers on the dial replaced by representations of building materials [...]
Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]
Nicholas Barbon who built hundreds of shoddy houses, some at Mincing Lane collapsed because their foundations were inadequate [...]
Walking around the cab he could see nothing amiss but as he opened the nearside door the woman fell into his arms covered in blood [...]
Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]
Containing an original 1899 Thomas Crapper `valveless water preventor', here red and black marble urinals adorn the opposite wall, after cleaning your soul above, here one may have a more secular dousing [...]
London Trivia: Ripper debut
February 25, 2018
The Olympic Legacy
August 03, 2012
Carve Her Name With Pride
November 11, 2011Rivers (don’t) run straight
February 17, 2018
The London Grill: Duncan Barrett
March 15, 2013
Must break wind
November 22, 2011
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London Map of Days by Mychael Barratt
Mychael Barratt has taken 366 events that have shaped our City and produced an original and very limited eight-plate etching which was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2015. This book features the 366 date-specific references to events or people throughout London’s history. His brilliant drawings show events as diverse as 17 December 1849, the first bowler hat was created by Thomas and William Bowlers; 3 December 1976, Pink Floyd’s inflatable pig breaks free from Battersea Power Station; 11 November 1920, Cenotaph on Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is unveiled on Armistice Day.
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London Trivia: Jam and Jerusalem
The memorial is being unveiled at Bunhill Fields today: http://www.bla
London Trivia: Jam and Jerusalem
I saw a Facebook post earlier today - William Blake's exact spot has b
A compact shelter
That would be great Tony. I was promised more information some time ag
A compact shelter
Hi I am one of the other two who along with Matthew built the cab she
Anglia & Angst
Thanks Pete for your good wishes