by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 5, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 5th March 133 King Henry II Born King of England 1154–89. Born in France, son of Empress Matilda. The first of the Plantagenets monarchs. First friend and then murderer of Thomas Becket. Father of Richard I and King John – for a modern take...
by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 4, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 4th March 1933 John W. Mills Born Sculptor. Born London. Has also designed a number of British coins. Cockney Cabbies One Big City, Three London Cabbies and the Rest Is History #london #history #tours #guides #cabbies #taxis #londontaxis...
by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 3, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 3erd March 1943 Bethnal Green WW2 Disaster The worst civilian disaster of WW2. 173 men, women and children lost their lives as they went down into Bethnal Green underground air raid shelter in response to a siren. They died not from a bomb but...
by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 2, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 2nd March 1830 Samuel Beeton Born Publisher and journalist. Born 39 Milk Street, Cheapside. At the age of twenty-one, he set up a publishing partnership which immediately had the opportunity to publish ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ by the...
by Cockney Cabbies | Mar 1, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 1st March 1944 Roger Daltrey Born Lead singer of the Who. Actor. Born Hammersmith Hospital. Raised in Acton.
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 28, 2022 | On This Day
On THis Day… 28th February 1975 Moorgate Tube Disaster At Moorgate station a southbound tube train from Drayton Park failed to stop on a terminus platform, ran into the tunnel, through the buffers and smashed into the wall at the end. Because it was built for...
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