The Cab-drivers' Society was a significant trade association formed in April 1874 in Pimlico. It was established by cab drivers to address their grievances and improve working conditions, marking the beginning of a formal reform movement within the industry.

An incredibly pleasant 1960s advert for Courage Best. Back when British advertising still had a touch of class. 🍻

With him sharing £5 with his wife.

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London bus driver Albert Gunter, famous for jumping the 78 bus over Tower Bridge as it started going up. His quick thinking to accelerate across undoubtedly saved lives, the only injury was the bus conductor who received a broken leg. Albert was rewarded with a £10 note wh...

He has no grave; in keeping with the custom for executed traitors. His body was placed on public display outside the Tower of London, after which the remains are said to have been disposed of in the Thames.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November. Guy Fawkes born in York, died in London. Jacket potato, sausages and beans for a traditional fireworks night.

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David Tennant's Doctor travels back in time to 1953 London, just before Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.

Then & Now: Farringdon Street, winter of 1962 - 1963. Said to be the coldest winter since records began. Even in London the snow hung around for 3 months. 1963 was the year I left school and I remember all the news was about England heading for an ice age.

Then & Now: Prince Consort Road, 1904. The area of Albertopolis, the cultural and scientific district established after the Great Exhibition of 1851. The Royal Albert Hall was a prominent landmark, and a photo from the era shows a hansom cab on the road.

Jeremy Bentham made an unusual request, for his body to be publicly dissected after his death to advance medical science, preserved as an "auto-icon"  dressed in his own clothes, padded with hay. Given to UCL in 1850 and is now on display in a glass case.

Christmas decorations, Easter Eggs, paints and not forgetting their own "Embassyl" record label, with copy-cat singers doing two "A" sides. When the Beatles couldn't get signed by Decca John Lennon said in a joke "there's always Embassy Records"

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The Jeremy Bentham pub in London is now closed, previously known as the "Lord Wellington" or "Welly Bar". The pub was renamed in 1982 to honor the philosopher and was known for its association with UCL and for displaying a wax head of Bentham.

Anyone miss looking around their local Woolies as the winter nights start setting in? If someone had told me Woolworths would be the first big high street name to disappear I would never have believed it. Best for CDs, paints, electrics & pick and mix sweets.

His own head which turned a ghastly colour was replaced with a replica. His actual head can still be seen placed on the floor between his feet.

Jeremy Bentham made an unusual request, for his body to be publicly dissected after his death to advance medical science, preserved as an "auto-icon"  dressed in his own clothes, padded with hay. Given to UCL in 1850 and is now on display in a glass case.

Happy Guy Fawkes Night. Remember, Remember the 5th of November.

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Getting ready for Guy Fawkes Night Remember, Remember, the 5th of November - how we used to do it. This could never happen these days, but somehow we survived it.

Lockyer Street, Bermondsey, London, 1935, when everyone knew their next door neighbours. Before television, people gathered on their doorsteps to have a good old natter.

Mr Powell Slashes His Prices. 4th August 1951: Women queuing outside a grocers shop in Blackheath, London, where prices are a third cheaper than usual.

Remember, Remember the 5th of November...Higham's Park, East London in 1946: penny for the guy, with fireworks in his hat, lapel and top pocket, an old English custom sadly gone, exchanged for Halloween 'trick or treat'.

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