Cabby Collection

Joe Elvin as a Cabby
The 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. 1920
Loading 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 there
A 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 Cabmen
John 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 Hardwick
Promotional 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 1909
Cartoon entitled Always the way by Bert Thomas, showing the weakness of Edwardian London hansom cab drivers and drivers. Date: 1909

Newest Hansom motor-cab 1909
Driving 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 identification
Completely 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, Russia
A Russian coachman and his carriage, Moscow, Russia Date: circa 1903

Shoeblack & Cabby
Shoeblack 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 cab
A 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 Station
A 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, 1881
Engraving showing a number of the types of people left in London, whilst more fortunate folk went on holiday in the summer of 1881

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