by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 27, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 27th February 1900 Labour Party Started Political party founded by Keir Hardie and others.
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 26, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 26th February 2009 Wendy Richard MBE Died Actor best known as Pauline Fowler in the soap, East Enders, and as Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served?, alongside John Inman. She also had a number 1 hit in 1962 with Mike Sarne, Come Outside, one of the...
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 25, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 25th February 1931 Lady Frances Balfour Born Liberal Women’s Suffrage Society and was on the executive committee of the NUWSS. Born as Frances Campbell at Argyll Lodge in Kensington, her father being the 8th Duke of Argyll. Her brother, John...
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 24, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day…. 24th February 1619 Robert Aske Born Son of a draper. Worked as a haberdasher; 1643 became a Freeman of the Haberdashers Company; 1666 elected an Alderman of the City of London. He became Master of the Haberdashers’ Company. But the reason...
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 23, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day… 23rd February 1916 Sir Laurence Gomme Born Born 3 Cecil Street, Stepney. Clerk to the London County Council, folklorist and historian. Died at home, Buckinghamshire.
by Cockney Cabbies | Feb 22, 2022 | On This Day
On This Day….. 22nd February 1857 Robert Baden-Powell Born Army officer and founder of the boy scouts and girl guides. Born as Robert Stephenson Smyth Powell at 6 Stanhope Street, Paddington. His mother changed the family name to Baden-Powell after her...
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