Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1920) Lord Grey of the Reform Bill, London: Longmans, Green & Co.; pp. 294–296 When initially told that his horses could not be ready at such short notice, the King is supposed to have said, "Then I will go in a hackney cab!". At 2 p.m. that day the House of Lords assembled.
|
|
The Peugeot E7 is a purpose built hackney cab. The vehicle provides full wheelchair accessibility and holds EC Whole Vehicle Type Approval. It is powered by Peugeot HDi engines. It is licensed to operate in 93% of all local authority areas across the UK, including cities such as Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Leicester, Sheffield, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Southampton, Stafford, Bristol, Cardiff, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
|
|
Luise Girnth was born in Berlin in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1869. She was the daughter of a hackney cab driver with origins in Silesia and received little formal education beyond primary school. She entered service as a domestic servant in Berlin in 1883.Neues Deutschland Newspaper, Personal Memoir Erinnerungen einer alten Berlinerin 8 March 1952 In 1888 she was apprenticed as a tailor before moving to Hamburg to work as a seamstress around 1893.
|
|
Born at 10 Hamill Street, in the Lower Falls area of Belfast, he was the fifth child of Charles Devlin (died 1906) who ran a hackney cab, and his wife Eliza King (died 1902) who sold groceries from their home, were both Roman Catholics.Hepburn, Anthony C.: in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol. 15, Oxford University Press, (2004), p.983 Until he was twelve he attended the nearby St. Mary's Christian Brothers' School in Divis Street, where he was educated in a more 'national' view of Irish history and culture than offered by the diocesan schools or the state system.
|
|
When this enterprise failed to materialise Glasse faced financial ruin and, as described by Hester Thrale in her memoirs, went to the City to obtain one last loan to cover his debts. On stopping for sustenance at the Bull and Mouth Inn in St Martin's Le Grand, he realised that he had left the entire sum in the hackney cab that had brought him there, and hanged himself at the Inn on 30 October 1809, predeceasing his father by 3 years. Ironically, the driver returned the money to the hostel the following day. Glasse is buried in the churchyard of St. Mary’s Hanwell, the church where he was rector from 1785-1809, commemorated by a neo-classical tomb.
|
|
A portmanteau exploration of disparate characters scattered across London, many of whose lives intersect unpredictably, showing the complexities, contradictions and compromises of modern living in the city of London. The film focuses on female empowerment 'London Unplugged,' centres around an interlinking device of a real-life female athlete, Yourlance Richards, who runs from Stratford in East London all the way to Kew Gardens in West London, visiting many of the locations which feature in the individual segments, which are as follows: # Dog Days # Felines # Club Drunk # Unchosen # Pictures # Little Sarah's Big Adventure # Mudan Blossoms # Shopping # The Door To # Kew Gardens The final segment is an adaptation of Virginia Woolf's short story "Kew Gardens". During the making of the film, a number of interlinking devices were filmed and trialled by supervising director Nicholas Cohen before settling on Yourlance Richard's run across London. These included: short documentaries about Londoners of different ages and backgrounds, a thread following the work of a London Hackney Cab driver and a selection of London archive material set to music.
|
|