David 🇬🇧🇺🇦

Retired Green Badge London Cabbie and blogger on all things about London, I post daily trivia @cabbieblog writing occasionally on

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Who hunts in the middle of a crowd but is unseen by all? Once asked by Sherlock Holmes. Hidden in plain sight, London's cabbies navigate the capital. My memoir gets behind the now lost, intimidating byzantine world of training and testing.
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CABBIE the movie https://t.co/5auj1l7eMp

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They once said I couldn't even give my book away, but I've proved them wrong and done just that

'Part Knowledge memoir, part history book with lots of nuanced history about London of which I was totally unaware.' - Tom Hutley, top YouTuber

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I’m taking part in #WalkToWorldArthritisDay. Please sponsor me and support the 10 million people in the UK living with arthritis. @VersusArthritis https://t.co/aLho2K3YeB

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Congratulations to @TomTaxiDriver on reaching 100,000 subscribers. Well done & a credit to the London Taxi Trade 👍 #Taxi #London https://t.co/Qsaw1oA5Gw

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#OTD Passengers at Victoria Coach Station, London, boarding the first run of the world's longest coach route, between London and Calcutta, in April 15, 1957. it took about 50 days for the bus to reach Calcutta from London. The service ended in 1976.

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Away Day!
In 1966 at Kensington Olympia station a "Motorail" terminal was opened where cars could drive up ramps onto strange-looking trains. British Railways' first car-carrying service was called the Car-Sleeper and ran all the way from London to Perth.

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The London Grill: Micky Harris | CabbieBlog https://t.co/lO8XSMl9Ct

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On This Day, 3rd March 1969, Tower Bridge was raised as the Seaspeed hovercraft "Princess Margaret" passed majestically underneath. The 'Priness Margaret' entered service on August 1968, the first of 6 cross channel hovercraft planned to enter service.

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The Cabmen’s Shelter formerly on Langham Place. Uncertain as to when this was removed.

h/t @Knowledgepoint for the image

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Then & Now: Long Lane, Bermondsey, corner with Staple Street. Date unknown, but judging by the decorations some celebration was ongoing.

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February 1971, turning right from Poland Street into Oxford Street, we see a gown van, which in those days the west end was full of them. They enabled dresses and gowns to be delivered on hangers. Just why they disappeared I know not. can you remember them?

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Then & Now: St Martin's Place
A rainy day in London, 30 January 1902, with Hansom cab and pedestrians with umbrellas. Now a sunny Day over 120 years in the future with St Martin's-in-the-Fields looking cleaner with a few trees and cycles parked up.

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The London Grill: Toby Osmond | CabbieBlog https://t.co/HfScITfPXo

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Thurloe Place, South Kensington, London, on a rainy day in 1901.
A couple of Hansom cab drivers exchange a word as they pass a four wheeler "Growler" and the cab shelter on their way towards Harrods. The shelter is still in use by cabbies after all this time.

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Happy Christmas from the Back Of Beyond | CabbieBlog https://t.co/oWO3NTB7fe

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Who remembers the GreenLine buses, once a regular sight travelling across London to the Suburbs? A GreenLine leaving Aldgate bus station going to Romford in 1967.

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Pie and Mash Cab | CabbieBlog https://t.co/cMGd80dDaa

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Happy, London’s cabbies? | CabbieBlog https://t.co/NTDuLzaz7d

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More cabbies needed | CabbieBlog https://t.co/1iKMewXf3j