Keeping One’s Council
Here’s something that I hoped I’d never have to write: Recently the City of London police put out an appeal to black cab drivers after a father left an urn containing his child’s ashes in the back of a cab, and cabbies responded with gusto. Unfortunately the general secretary of a London cab drivers’ trade union, responded by saying “I’m not in the slightest bit surprised… The stuff that gets left in cabs beggars belief. We’ve had babies and tens of thousands in cash.” True, but did it need to be said?
Johnson’s London Dictionary: London Bridge
LONDON BRIDGE (n.) Strukture spanning the Great River used to prove Freemen may for no apparent purpose cross whilst shepherding sheep.
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London in Quotations: Max Schlesinger
Whenever a stranger is bold enough to hail a cab, not one, but half a dozen come at once, obedient to his call; and the eagerness the drivers display is truly touching.
Max Schlesinger (1822-1881), Saunterings in and about London
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