London's green Cabmen's Shelters have been a distinctive part of the city since 1875.

In this video I'll be telling you all about their intriguing history, where you can find the 13 surviving examples, and how you too can make use of them!

Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:20 London Cabbies in the 19th Century
04:38 Britain's First Cab Shelter
06:47 The Cabmen's Shelter Fund
09:09 London's First Cab Shelter
10:59 Early Cab Shelter Design
14:36 A New Design
17:01 London's Cab Shelters Today
18:12 Russell Square WC2
19:31 Chelsea Embankment SW3
20:28 St George's Square SW1
20:50 Grosvenor Gardens SW1
21:32 Pont Street SW1
22:05 Thurloe Place SW7
22:39 Kensington Road SW7
24:09 Kensington Park Road W11
25:09 Warwick Avenue W9
25:51 Wellington Place NW8
26:43 Hanover Square W1
27:18 Embankment Place WC2
28:02 Temple Place WC2

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Links for this video:

Russell Square Shelter
  / russellsqcabhut  

Cafe Pier
  / cafepier_chelsea  

St George's Square Shelter
https://restaurantguru.com/StGeorges...

Grosvenor Gardens Shelter
  / grosvenorgdns  

Kensington Road Shelter (Luba's Green Hut)
  / lubasgreenhut  

Kensington Park Road Shelter
https://twitter.com/parkshelter?lang=...

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Credits

IMAGES:

Manchester Cab painting: Manchester Art Gallery

Langham Place Shelter: The London Wanderer

Old Shelter Photo: Cabbieblog

Kensington Park Road Shelter 1987: Chelsea News & General Advertiser

Alexandra Palace; Russ London, Creative Commons

Cab Shelter 1910: The Sphere

London Taxi with fire fighting equipment: London Fire brigade

Cafe de Paris image: Andy Mabbett, Creative Commons

Cab Shelter 3D Model: Artfletch
https://sketchfab.com/artfletch

St John’s Wood Church: Creative Commons, Wikipedia

Bersey Taxi: Vauxford, Creative Commons

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MUSIC

Light Sting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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Blue Danube (Strauss)


Prelude No. 17 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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Ceremonial Library (Asher Fulero)


Angels We Have Heard Christmas by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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Butterflies in Love (Sir Cubworth)

Billy Goat Stomp (Joel Cummins)

Bottle smash sound effect (Inspector J, Creative Commons via free sound.org)

Cocktail Houe (Aaron Kenny)

Prelude No. 12 by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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Lark sound; reinsamba, Creative Commons

Fine Dining (TrackTribe)

Bomb sound: djfroyd, Creative Commons

Telephone sound: mycompasstv

Home for the Holidays (TrackTribe)