by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 27, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 28th April 1923 First FA Cup Final at Wembley The first FA Cup Final was held at Wembley Stadium. 200,000 people arrived at a stadium which was only designed to hold 125,000 and when 60,000 irate fans rushed the turnstiles a human torrent swept...
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 27, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 27th April 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Born Writer, philosopher and feminist before her time. Born Primrose Street, Spitalfields. Her radical book “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792) in which she described marriage as “legal...
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 26, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 26th April 1976 Sid James Died Comedy actor. Born in Johannesburg (on Hancock Street), South Africa, to a pair of British music hall performers and brought up in both South Africa and England. Worked as a diamond sorter and then a hairdresser....
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 25, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 25th April 1599 Oliver Cromwell Born Born Huntingdon, the great-grandson of Richard Cromwell who was Thomas Cromwell’s nephew. The picture source website also provides these words: “Following the traumatic upheavals of civil war and...
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 24, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 24th April 624 Bishop Mellitus Died In 604 the Bishop Mellitus arrived from Italy as the first Bishop of London and built and dedicated a cathedral to St Paul on the site where St Paul’s stands today. Became Archbishop of Canterbury and is buried...
by Cockney Cabbies | Apr 23, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 23rd April St Georges Day 23rd April is the National Day of England and the Feast Day of St. George Cockney Cabbies One Big City, Three London Cabbies and the Rest Is History #london #history #tours #guides #cabbies #taxis #londontaxis #blackcabs...
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