Patreon posts — 18 August 2018
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Just another chapter in England’s bloody history, but according to popular, if dubious legend, it was realised that no official portrait existed of the deceased Duke. His body was exhumed, the head reaffixed to the...
Britain’s last outpost part 1
February 16, 2019Real policemen and fictional detectives
January 19, 2019The most beautiful road in London
January 05, 2019Toilets, tantrums and The Tower
December 15, 2018Is there an R in the month?
December 01, 2018Hope and heartbreak
November 17, 2018A latino porn star
November 03, 2018Up North
October 20, 2018Hitchcock’s head
October 06, 2018A pod of whales
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Abstracts of Black Cab Lore by Sean Farrell
For four hundred years London taxi drivers have served the capital, the vehicles may have evolved but the driver has remained pretty much the same. But who were the men (and later women) who drove those cabs? London’s taxi drivers are continually voted the best in the world, each one of them having gone through the infamous test, ‘The Knowledge’, but very little is known about those who got us where we are today. Now, the history of the trade from the driver’s perspective is told for the first time, this huge tome contains hundreds of stories, compiled from a variety of sources, give a more intimate perspective than has ever been seen before.
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