by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 10, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 10th March 1906 Baker Street and Waterloo Railway Constructed by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, between Baker Street and Lambeth North, (then called Kennington Road). It was later extended to Elephant & Castle, and then...
by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 9, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 9th March 1926 Sir George Martin Born Music producer. Born George Henry Martin in Highbury. He worked for the BBC’s classical music department, before joining EMI as an assistant to the head of Parlophone Records, eventually becoming head...
by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 8, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 8th March 1956 Laurie Cunningham Born Footballer. Born Laurence Paul Cunningham in Archway. One of the first black footballers to be selected for the England football team. He played for Leyton Orient and West Bromwich Albion, before transferring...
by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 7, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 7th March 1958 Rik Mayall Born Actor, comedian and writer. Born Richard Michael Mayall in Epping. He was part of the ‘alternative comedy’ wave in the early 1980s, and appeared in ‘The Comic Strip’ and ‘The Young...
by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 6, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 6th March 1917 Frankie Howard Born Comedian and actor. Born Francis Alick Howard in York. He started entertaining whilst serving in the army in World War II, during which time he changed the spelling of his surname, ‘to be different’....
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