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We were just chatting about this at home. My other half loves her home city. I have absolutely no interest in where I come from.
What about you?
What about you?
Poses another question too, where do you consider home? I’ve lived in many places in my adult life, for me that answer lies overseas.
These days we're free to self identify
Home is where my permanent place of residence is. For the last 20 years, that's been Bedfordshire. I was always consider myself a Londoner in the way my wife will always consider herself a Lancastrian despite having spent 2/3 of her life living in the south of the country.
That said, I know of at least 2 people who were born and raised in the north of the country who now consider themselves Londoners.
I grew up with a lad who'd been born in Bradford, but lived in London since he was 3. Spoke with an East End accent, everything. For whatever reason, when he become a young adult, he decided he was a proud Yorkshireman, and eventually moved up north, 'home'. Except that he never really settled there, and now lives in Malaysia. I always think he'd have been better off if he'd just given in and accepted being a Londoner.
Poses another question too, where do you consider home? I’ve lived in many places in my adult life, for me that answer lies overseas.
Born and bred in hackney , dalston to be precise .. moved out at 21 never lost the accent or the ability to recognise the area accent over the years . .. would I go back no way I’m happy in my north wales hillside retreat with views over the sea and beaches ten minutes away ..
funnily enough when I was working about 15 years ago a local lad got in my cab and I picked up on his accent so we started chatting ,turns out he was also a cabbie but worked the next town , but the more we talked the more came out and it turned out we used to both hang out together in our gang /group as teenagers .. neither of us had recognised each other till then ..
Only the Jewish ones.I thought all the cabbies moved to Gants Hill
Quite possibly, couple of my good mates over the Orient were Jewish and Black cabbies.Only the Jewish ones.
I went out with a girl in early 80's who did alot of baby sitting for jewish families in the Gants Hill area. Most had second jobs, some would share cabs too.Quite possibly, couple of my good mates over the Orient were Jewish and Black cabbies.
One did live in Gants Hill and the other in Clapton, must be hard going for them now
Had a fair few Jewish supporters, remember the Happy New Year to our Jewish supporters message in the programme
Wonder if you still get people doing the knowledge on mopeds with clipboards?
Wonder if you still get people doing the knowledge on mopeds with clipboards?
I thought all the cabbies moved to Gants Hill
Only the Jewish ones.
Born and bred in hackney , dalston to be precise .. moved out at 21 never lost the accent or the ability to recognise the area accent over the years . .. would I go back no way I’m happy in my north wales hillside retreat with views over the sea and beaches ten minutes away ..
A proper Londoner would know this...
You wouldn't recognise it now. Remember how you wouldn't have dared walk down Sandringham Road (aka 'the Frontline)? Or up round Shacklewell Lane? Only the very wealthy can afford to move in now. Ridley road market's days are numbered. And I wonder how long all the Turkish businesses will hang around, with all the rents etc going up and up and up. We're properly rooted here though, and I can't see us moving until such point that we become Tired of Life™.
Living at the east end of the District Line, at afternoon/evening rush hour, there is always around 10 black cabs ready and waiting, as one leaves with a fare, they all shuffle forward and it isn't long before another joins the back of the queue. I guess after a day in the city, they then come to the outskirts to take people home from the station.A proper Londoner would know this...
Still see the odd Knowledge learners on scooters, round London. Speaking to cabbies I know, such a thing, whilst still very useful, will become redundant soon. The live traffic info on Google maps etc is getting better all the time, and gives more useful information at any given time, than decades of knowledge can. It's all about TfL securing cabbie's livelihoods by not giving in to the likes of Über etc, and protecting the black cab service. Many are not confident this will happen though, sadly. But then; for most people, travelling by cab in central London is a luxury anyway, and market forces will dictate that much cheaper services such as Über will prevail, and then do away with a licensed cab service altogether. But then; a proper public owned transport system would ensure that something like a hail and ride cab service was part of the whole.
Always amuses me, when out and about in the outer suburbs, seeing black cabs parked up outside houses. Cos try to get one in the centre, to go out so far, and they'll come up with some excuse as to why they can't go such a distance.
I worked around there for a while, based at the telephone exchange (CLIssold for the older ones) behind Marks and Sparks, Dalston Junction
Used to have a pint and lunch at a pub on a little alley through to Balls Pond Road, record shop there too
The station was still there then and so was Broad Street where I got the train back to for home
A proper Londoner would know this...
Still see the odd Knowledge learners on scooters, round London. Speaking to cabbies I know, such a thing, whilst still very useful, will become redundant soon. The live traffic info on Google maps etc is getting better all the time, and gives more useful information at any given time, than decades of knowledge can. It's all about TfL securing cabbie's livelihoods by not giving in to the likes of Über etc, and protecting the black cab service. Many are not confident this will happen though, sadly. But then; for most people, travelling by cab in central London is a luxury anyway, and market forces will dictate that much cheaper services such as Über will prevail, and then do away with a licensed cab service altogether. But then; a proper public owned transport system would ensure that something like a hail and ride cab service was part of the whole.
Always amuses me, when out and about in the outer suburbs, seeing black cabs parked up outside houses. Cos try to get one in the centre, to go out so far, and they'll come up with some excuse as to why they can't go such a distance.
Friend's dad was a cabbie. They are Jewish and lived in Pinner. I think cabbies in general had an aversion to living anywhere near Zone 2! But in any area where there are a lot of (secular) Jewish people living, you'll find a load of cabbies nestled in there. Gants Hill/Redbridge, Romford, Barnet, Stanmore, Wembley, Boringwood and Radlett! Of course, they'll all claim to be from the East End, but truth is
You wouldn't recognise it now. Remember how you wouldn't have dared walk down Sandringham Road (aka 'the Frontline)? Or up round Shacklewell Lane? Only the very wealthy can afford to move in now. Ridley road market's days are numbered. And I wonder how long all the Turkish businesses will hang around, with all the rents etc going up and up and up. We're properly rooted here though, and I can't see us moving until such point that we become Tired of Life™.