I try to avoid it now - too crowded, and some indefinable sense of danger. On my few visits to London I use taxis or buses, if I can find out where they are. When I did use it, I had an enormous affection for Baker Street, my local station, and Covent Garden, with its ancient creaky lifts. They can't be still there, can they?

Whooo! thanks for that link. TimR.  To my shame, I have never got around to doing that walk but I keep meaning to Those photographs were fascinating. That rather lovely little building with two chiimmneys is now an Estate Agents. They get everywhere

I know.  I've just got a really sick sense of humour.  Sorry. 

P.S.  I never give it a thought either.  I'll travel on anything, anytime anywhere.

Ah, taxis, they're great aren't they?  They may be expensive and therefore an occasional luxury, but it's soooo much nicer to hop in a cab from Victoria after a late Prom and be home in ten minutes.

Having moved from somewhere to which a black cab from Central London would have cost £60 (I know - I did it on work expenses once after a particularly late night meeting a deadline) I LOVE the fact that I can now get home from Waterloo for £12 and Victoria for around £15.  The expense is worth it for getting home safely, and into bed earlier.

It is to me, too - the moment I am expected to queue for something, I feel suddenly as though my need of it has diminished. OK, I did "queue" for hours on the four occasions that Solti conducted the operas of the Ring cycle at ROH in the 1960s and have never regretted having done so, but it didn't feel at all like "queueing" as much as merely waiting...

But while on the subject of taxis, it is a very strange peculiarity of the city in which I live (Bath) that most people who want a taxi just don't try to hail one like normal people do in London and elsewhere. It can be quite difficult doing this here, too, since the lights atop most local taxis are insufficiently clear, especially in sunny weather, so it's rarely possible to tell in advance whether or not an approaching taxi is for hire or already booked. I've long since gotten used to just sticking my hand out at any car with a "taxi" sign and hoping for the best. A few cab drivers around here have actual London taxis and their "for hire" lights are, of course, as clear as they are in London itself.

Best,

Alistair

As a Suffolk boy, I have to ask - where on earth is/was this place?!


My favourite tube announcement was when stuck on the Circle line somewhere between Tower Hill and Liverpool Street: the driver told us that the delay was 'due to too many trains on too little track'.