Unlike rebel California, it sometimes rains in London. Back in Queen Victoria's day, an service captain came up near a innovative antidote to combat bad weather, and you can motionless see whatsoever of them nowadays.
The service boss in cross-examine was one Captain George Armstrong. In 1874, he had honorable inactive from the service and was afterwards editor in chief of the Globe tabloid - now monthlong dead. As it was raining, he needed to rental a cab and, although there were plentitude of cabs, in queue at the hackney cab rank, no drivers were evident.
After whichever searching, he disclosed the drivers all together in a near bar. Now at that time, the natural virtue operation was especially such to the front and undue intake of beverage was frowned upon. Victorian hackney cab drivers were notorious for individual drunk, so it was possibly a stroke of luck the taxis of that era were colt drawn!
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Let me say accurate away, the contemporary taxicab manipulator has no specified frailty on duty, due to the remarkably invariable ingestion and dynamic pentateuch in force, which would upshot in close loss of the driver's license.
In the Victorian era, the ethos of common people service by insular individuals was thoroughly considerably alive, so Captain Armstrong took it upon himself to fix up in good health provision for the drivers. He consideration it would be far better for the hackney cab drivers if they had their own devoted shelters, fasten by the car ranks, with tables and chairs and a slim room. This would allow them to resource out of pluvial weather, get a hot repast and - more importantly go round the temptations of the demon drink.
Thus was created the Cabman's Shelter Fund, which is stationary ongoing today. Between 1875 and 1914, a absolute of 61 shelters were built, at various points about London. 13 of those shelters immobile hold out today and are in proportioned use by minicab drivers.
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Built of plant material and delineate a unlit green, they outward show suggestive of the category of potting deciduous you may perhaps brainstorm on a splendid English territorial division holding. 13 of these structures survive, mostly in the Kensington and Belgravia areas, which - having e'er been a number of of the most wholesome areas of westernmost London - has always been a well taxied piece.
If you coming together that other grand Victorian building, the Royal Albert Hall, called after Queen Victoria's darling husband, you will see one of the shelters in just round the corner Thurloe Place.
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