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Cabby Collection

Background imageCabby Collection: Joe Elvin as a Cabby

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!"

Background imageCabby Collection: The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Note the elegant gilt Art Nouveau surround border and the horse cab front and centre. Date: 1903

Background imageCabby Collection: Loading a passenger's luggage on the roof of a four-wheeler at St Pancras station, London

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

Background imageCabby Collection: Three rather raffish horse- drawn cab drivers pose for a photograph during a quiet moment in

Three rather raffish horse- drawn cab drivers pose for a photograph during a quiet moment in between driving jobs. Date: 1890s

Background imageCabby Collection: 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
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

Background imageCabby Collection: Street Life London 1878 - London Cabmen

Street Life London 1878 - London Cabmen
John Thomson Street Life London 1878 - London Cabmen

Background imageCabby Collection: A New Hat for Cabby, The Guild of the Good Samaritan

A New Hat for Cabby, The Guild of the Good Samaritan, Clothe the Poor. 1899

Background imageCabby Collection: Cab! Cab!! Cabby!!! Comic song by George Ford & J A Hardwick

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

Background imageCabby Collection: Always the way cartoon by Bert Thomas 1909

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

Background imageCabby Collection: Newest Hansom motor-cab 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

Background imageCabby Collection: Completely bizarre conversation concerning identification

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

Background imageCabby Collection: A burly Russian coachman, Moscow, Russia

A burly Russian coachman, Moscow, Russia
A Russian coachman and his carriage, Moscow, Russia Date: circa 1903

Background imageCabby Collection: Shoeblack & Cabby

Shoeblack & Cabby
Shoeblack polishing a Cabbys shoes. Date: circa 1910

Background imageCabby Collection: A Professor of Languages

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

Background imageCabby Collection: A Huddersfield Horse cab

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

Background imageCabby Collection: Tiny Town cabby and passenger at Victoria Station

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

Background imageCabby Collection: People left in London during the Summer Holidays, 1881

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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