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Thomas Moore email: TMooreSr@me.com Telephone: 801.791.9918
April 5, 2013
September 23, 2012
THE ALBERT MEMORIAL: A MONUMENT BUILT IN KENSINGTON GARDENS BY A GRIEVING WIDOW
Queen Victoria’s consort Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-and Gotha died in 1861 at 41 years of age and after twenty years of marriage to the Queen. Victoria was besotted by the Prince Consort; he was the center of her entire world. When he died, the lights went out for the Queen, and she went into deep mourning for nearly the rest of her life–40 long years. She named memorials, statues, docks, streets, and events after Prince Albert which remain to this day as reminders of the great contribution to commerce, architecture, music, engineering, art, taste, porcelain and china, all the decorative arts, government, history, education, health, family life, on and on. He was adored by his children and honored by the Empire. The Prince prevented the Queen from making numerous political mistakes; had he lived many of the difficulties created by an aggressive empire would have been avoided. I have known this monument to Prince Albert all my life, and I have admired the over-the-top design which seemed to be adequate to express the Queen’s intensive feeling of loneliness. When I want to understand the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution, I come to THE ALBERT MEMORIAL. In so many ways, this great monument symbolizes the growth of the world that soon became English-speaking. Gothic? Of course. It was the architecture that Albert liked most: the Palace of Westminster and so many other Victorian church, domestic, and government buildings. Prince Albert expanded the minds of the British world–from an insular nation to a global trading empire. His influence was immeasurable. The kingdom which almost rejected the Prince mourned, but the Queen never recovered. What a story. What a memorial. Fabulous! When you are in London, you truly must wander through Kensington Gardens, around the Albert Memorial Hall, and admire this beautiful monument.
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Thomas Moore email: TMooreSr@me.com Telephone: 801.791.9918
August 17, 2012
THE LONDON CONNECTION’S DAVID NORMAN AND HIS TEAM OF DRIVERS ARE THE BEST
Every time I do a reservation to one of our flats, I encourage the visitors to take DAVID NORMAN’S DRIVER SERVICE. I tell clients that is makes the arrival and adjustment to London much smoother. Read the reviews on our website; you will be delight when you read them.
Our visitors are met in the airport upon arrival, brought to the taxi, driven to their reserved property and helped with the luggage. The service is 55 pounds + tip from Heathrow. When I arrive at JFK in New York, I pay $100US to take me to Midtown, but I know it is a lot easier than taking all those buses. Today, I received an email from Ricardo who is our assistant manager in London who meets and greets people coming to our flats. He sent me the email shown below. I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER. Besides, these fine people are our drivers, and they know all about us and our team. It is a careful team who understand what they are doing. (The London Connection earns no money from the driver pick-ups. You pay the drivers directly. It is the service which is important to us. After 30 years of doing this business, we know what we are doing!)
Thomas Moore email: TMooreSr@me.com Telephone: 801.791.9918
December 11, 2011
GETTING MARRIED IN LONDON: The London Cab, “at your service.”
Let me tell you what I love about the Brits:
Thomas Moore email: TMooreSr@me.com Telephone: 801.791.9918
August 8, 2011
A CABMAN’S SHELTER: The Green Buildings all over London
Several years ago, Mrs. Moore and I purchased a few Persian rugs at a London auction. We collected the rugs and came out to find a taxi to take us home. A young taxi cab driver named Johnnie Branch collected us and brought us home. We became good friends with Johnnie, and he became “best friends” with our children who came to London with their cousins and school friends. Several evenings were spent running around in Jimmie’s cab eating salt beef sandwiches in the East End and having a hot Cornish Pie from one of the CABMAN’S SHELTERS. I remember coming home from a concert in South Kensington when Jimmie Branch picked us up and took us to St. James’s, but treated us with a hot snack at a Green Cabman’s SHELTER on the corner of Pont Street and Sloane Street. These wonderful green wood buildings for the cab drivers are a part of London’s scene and are guarded by the National Trust. Keep your eyes open and see if you can find one of the remaining SHELTERS–only a few left in London, now protected. What I enjoy when I am with Jimmie is the chatter between the drivers when they get together for a cup of coffee or whatever–the chatter is wonderful. Believe me, many taxi drivers have taken me to unknown and hidden London sites–the cabbies know almost everything about this fabulous city, and they love to gather at the CABMAN’S GREEN SHELTERS. Enjoy. Good reading here.
Thomas Moore email: TMooreSr@me.com Telephone: 801.791.9918
