Let me tell you what I love about the Brits:
Thomas Moore email: TMooreSr@me.com Telephone: 801.791.9918
December 11, 2011
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
