Green Cabbie Huts provide refreshments for London cab drivers. (0) These small shelters are dotted around London’s streets, many of which are open to the public for takeaway sales.
London cabs (25)
licensed since 1639. By 1860 there were already 4,600 cabs in the streets.
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out in all types of weather, poor conditions endangered the health of cab drivers in Victorian times. At that time, the cab-driver’s vehicle was a horse-drawn carriage.
He was expected to ‘sit on the box’ (27)
rain, snow, cold and wind waiting for a fare and the only place of comfort was a pub.
Since it was illegal to leave the horses unattended, most cabbies (28)
have a lad employed for this purpose, as well as for carrying cases.
In January 1875, a certain Captain Armstrong, sent his manservant (29)
into a raging blizzard to engage a taxi to take him to Fleet Street.
The manservant eventually returned a full hour later and soaked to the skin. The captain asked him why he (30)
out so long.
He said that although there were cabs on the local rank, all the cabmen were drunk and in no (31)
to take him to Fleet Street.
Captain Armstrong decided to do something about this and came (32)
with the idea of dedicated shelters for cabbies’ use close to the cab stands.
The first shelters were opened in 1875 providing ‘good and wholesome refreshments at moderate prices’.
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