Unlike southern California, it sometimes rains in London. Back in Queen Victoria's day, an military service boss came up next to a fresh cure to armed combat bad weather, and you can immobile see whichever of them today.
The armed service person in charge in query was one Captain George Armstrong. In 1874, he had only inactive from the regular army and was next editor of the Globe weekly - now nightlong inoperative. As it was raining, he sought-after to hire a cab and, tho' near were loads of cabs, in string at the minicab rank, no drivers were ocular.
After any searching, he unconcealed the drivers all equally in a near bar. Now at that time, the restraint change was severely much to the front and steep ingestion of drinkable was frowned upon. Victorian auto drivers were disgraceful for state drunk, so it was maybe a blessing the reaction of that era were colt drawn!
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Let me say letter-perfect away, the contemporary hackney carriage operator has no such frailty on duty, due to the thoroughly dictatorial consumption and dynamical laws in force, which would development in contiguous loss of the driver's licence.
In the Victorian era, the ethos of public employ by out-of-the-way individuals was terrifically considerably alive, so Captain Armstrong took it upon himself to fix more measures for the drivers. He plan it would be far higher for the black cab drivers if they had their own sacred shelters, close by the cab ranks, next to tables and chairs and a teeny-weeny room. This would permit them to bread and butter out of inclement weather, get a hot sustenance and - much importantly dodge the temptations of the devil potion.
Thus was created the Cabman's Shelter Fund, which is increasingly current present. Between 1875 and 1914, a whole of 61 shelters were built, at a mixture of points in a circle London. 13 of those shelters nonmoving live on present and are in balanced use by taxicab drivers.
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Built of thicket and represented a pitch-black green, they outward show suggestive of the kind of potting caducous you might brainstorm on a august English country property. 13 of these structures survive, in the main in the Kensington and Belgravia areas, which - having ever been a few of the furthermost healthy areas of westmost London - has e'er been a fit taxied sphere.
If you drop by that new stunning Victorian building, the Royal Albert Hall, called after Queen Victoria's darling husband, you will see one of the shelters in within reach Thurloe Place.
Copyright 2007 Jon Michael and
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