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or alternatively.. **Gimmie Shelter, the Handsome Cabmen's Shelter ride.
Sat 17th July, leaving 8.30PM prompt.
**I came up with an idea for a ride to celebrate and honour the taxi folk of yesterday. I'm not talking about the grumpy, foulmounthed and overweight cabmen of today though.
Looking like overgrown garden sheds, these distinctive buildings can still be found on the streets of London, offering shelter for the drivers of hansom cabs and hackney carriages (taxis) since 1875.
Because cab drivers weren't allowed to leave their vehicles when parked at a stand, it was difficult for them to get a hot meal while at work, so The Earl of Shaftesbury (God bless 'im) and a few philanthropic chums decided to create a cabbie's charity in 1874.
Entitled the Cabmen's Shelter Fund, the charity set out to construct and run shelters to provide cabbies with 'good and wholesome refreshments at moderate prices.'
The surviving shelters can be seen at:
Chelsea Embankment - near the Albert Bridge
Embankment Place
Grosvenor Gardens - west side of north garden
Hanover Square - north of central garden
Kensington Park Road - outside numbers 8-10
Kensington Road - north side
Pont Street
Russell Square - west corner (previously in Leicester Square)
St George's Square, Pimlico
Temple Place
Thurloe Place, Kensington - opp the Victoria & Albert Museum
Warwick Avenue - Clifton Gardens
Wellington Place, St John's Wood
Now the ride will hopefully have 1x pub stop at a Sam Smiths and 2 x tramp beer stops. So I suggest you bring a couple of cans of your favourite fun brews.
Please bring all relevent spares and clothing for an evening of riding likely to finish soon after midnight. We will be pedalling at a brisk social pace for the first half to make sure we get to the pub stop before last orders.
The first section of the ride has many twists and turns through back streets and the last small section of the ride will be in heavy traffic so if we clump together it will be fine.
Dropout has been the master behind the route, so together we look forward to shwing people around some back roads you may never have been down.
i cut and pasted from here http://www.urban75.org/london/cabmans-shelters.html
So whos in?
1.owenreed
2.Dropout
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