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Joe Elvin as a CabbyThe Cockney Comedian Joe Elvin in the role of The Hansom Cabby, singing a ditty entitled My Lot. " Strange things I view when I peep through the little trapdoor!"
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Note the elegant gilt Art Nouveau surround border and the horse cab front and centre. Date: 1903
Loading a passenger's luggage on the roof of a four-wheeler at St Pancras station, London. Date: C. 1920Loading a passenger's luggage on the roof of a four-wheeler at St Pancras station, London. Date: C.1920
Three rather raffish horse- drawn cab drivers pose for a photograph during a quiet moment in between driving jobs. Date: 1890s
A horse-bus clashes with a horse-cab in 1853. Bussy: "Why don t you move on thereA horse-bus clashes with a horse-cab in 1853. Bussy: " Why don t you move on there?" Cabby: " Why didn t you tell us you were a coming? We wouldn t a bin ere at all!" Date: 1853
Street Life London 1878 - London CabmenJohn Thomson Street Life London 1878 - London Cabmen
A New Hat for Cabby, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor. 1899
Cab! Cab!! Cabby!!! Comic song by George Ford & J A HardwickPromotional music sheet for Cab! Cab!! Cabby!!! music hall song of 1849 by George Ford & J. A. Hardwick, sung with much Laughter and Applause by George Ford
Always the way cartoon by Bert Thomas 1909Cartoon entitled Always the way by Bert Thomas, showing the weakness of Edwardian London hansom cab drivers and drivers. Date: 1909
Newest Hansom motor-cab 1909Driving in the streets of Paris the latest motor-cab Hansom, with the driver sitting a aloft at the back. Date: 1909
Completely bizarre conversation concerning identificationCompletely bizarre conversation between two cabbies concerning identification - at least the participants seem to understand one another. Overheard on a Cab Rank
A burly Russian coachman, Moscow, RussiaA Russian coachman and his carriage, Moscow, Russia Date: circa 1903
Shoeblack & CabbyShoeblack polishing a Cabbys shoes. Date: circa 1910
A Professor of Languages A Language Student returns to his College, but his grasp of the vernacular of his cabby seems less that First Class as he appears to have underpaid his driver
A Huddersfield Horse cabA fine photograph of an equally fine horse-drawn cab, with an open soft top, driven by the proprietor of the firm, W Haigh. Mr Haigh specialised in furniture removals, cabs and as a Daily Carrier
Tiny Town cabby and passenger at Victoria StationA Tiny Town cabby and his passenger at Victoria Station, at the time of a Tiny Town exhibition at Olympia, West London
People left in London during the Summer Holidays, 1881Engraving showing a number of the types of people left in London, whilst more fortunate folk went on holiday in the summer of 1881