Taxi Collection

The Main Entrance - The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Date: 1913

Please, Mr Policeman, where is Father Christmas by Matania
In the centre of London, close to Piccadilly Circus, two children stop a policeman from directing traffic to ask him where Father Christmas is

Provincial Airways Poster
Poster, Travel by Provincial Airways, with a propeller above a red and black car, and details of the south-west coast route from Croydon to Plymouth. 20th century

Altrincham Railway Station - Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. Date: 1903

Sub-station with taxis and crews, WW2
A typical London Fire Brigade sub-station watch and their equipment. Taxis were used as makeshift fire engines which towed trailer pumps

The pier at Entebbe, Uganda - Lake Victoria
The pier at Entebbe, Uganda on the shore of Lake Victoria with the steam ferryboats Clement Hill (on left) which was in service between 1906-36 and either the Winifred or Sybil (on the right)

NEW FORD TAXI 1930S
One of the new Ford motor taxi cabs

Guide Dog Crossing Road
Guide dog Buddy I with Morris Frank. Buddy was his third seeing eye dog. He was the first guide dog in the USA. Date: 1930s

Brompton Oratory, London. Date: circa 1905

View of the main entrance to Waterloo Station, London
View of the famous main entrance to Waterloo Station, London. According to the clock, it is 11:10 in the morning, when most people are already at work. A row of taxis waits outside. Date: circa 1930s

Curacao - Willemstad - Queen Emma Bridge
Curacao - a Dutch dependency in the West Indies. View of Willemstad and the Queen Emma Bridge, a pontoon bridge across St. Anna Bay, built in 1888. Date: circa 1910s

Honeymoon taxi / W H Robinson
The best man need no longer grovel under back axles to attach boots and horseshoes etc. The Honeymoon taxi comes pre-prepared

Knightsbridge, London - looking east. The Hyde Park Hotel is on the left. Date: circa 1910s

Fleet Street, London
A lovely view up Fleet Street, toward Ludgate Hill and St Pauls Cathedral

Charing Cross Station & obelisk
The Victorian replica of the Eleanor Cross at London Charing Cross station, surrounded by taxi cars

Hastings, East Sussex - The Albert Memorial in the town centre

Chile - Santiago - Mapocho Station
Chile - Santiago - The elegant and attractive front of Mapocho Station. Now a cultural centre. Date: circa 1910s

Corner shop in Vienna, Austria
A large corner shop, Hammerbrot, on a street in Vienna, Austria, with parked cars and people out shopping. Date: 1953

Slow Coach and infuriated passenger
A lovely postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Urgent - featuring a carriage being pulled by a very tired old nag and being driven by an old soak of a driver

Hailing taxis / W H Robinson -test edit
The fitting of the new Heath Robinson taxi hailer dissolves all difficulties of inadequate whistles (due in some cases to dental work)

Labroke Grove, London
A view of Ladbroke Grove, London

Stationary traffic along a busy Piccadilly at night, showing a London taxi cab for hire, and the illuminated signs of Piccadilly Circus in the background in London

Sadar Bazar, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India - May, 1922. Date: 1922

Man in pony and trap beneath a road sign on Innishmore
A man wearing a cloth cap sits in a pony and trap beneath a road sign on Innishmore, Aran Islands, Ireland. Horse transport is often used as taxis on the islands Date: 1991

Female French Horse Cab Driver - Madame Decourcelle - Paris
Female French Horse Cab Driver - Madame Decourcelle and her best friend - Paris. Lady cab drivers were seen by paying customers as a far safer bet than their male counterparts

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

Great Central Railway - Marylebone Station. The newspaper headlines on the left give a perfect date for this photograph of May 1906 as they detail the British victory in the Bambatha (Bambaata)

London St. Pancras Railway Station probably 1920/30s

London Fleet Street Victorian period

Busy London street scene - hand coloured - Victorian period

Nottingham Trinity Square Campion Taxi Service in 1927

Campion motorbike taxi in Trinity Square Nottingham in 1927

Growler Cab in London

A London Growler Cab Victorian period

London Regent Street early 1900s

London Hansom Cab Victorian period

Euston Station London early 1900s

Burnley in 1880

Burnley Centre in 1880

London at night, cabbies waiting for passengers, early 1900s

Norwich Market probably 1930s

Blackburn Station Square probably 1920s

Cabs waiting at Bootham Bar, York, early 1900s

Norwich Market Place probably 1920s

London Policeman probably 1920s

London Bridge, Victorian period

Regent Street, London, England
Regent Street, London - looking north toward Oxford Circus with Dickins and Jones Department Store (right), which traded between 1835 and 2007. Date: circa 1909

Market Square, Johannesburg, South Africa. Date: 1905

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