Why Manor House holds a Special Place in the Heart of every London Cabbie - Harringay online2024-03-28T14:43:56Zhttps://harringayonline.com/forum/topics/why-manor-house-holds-a-special-place-in-the-heart-of-every-londo?commentId=844301%3AComment%3A472708&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBack in the 50s a cabbie name…tag:harringayonline.com,2013-03-26:844301:Comment:4736442013-03-26T17:32:09.835ZRichard Woodshttps://harringayonline.com/profile/RichardWoods
<p>Back in the 50s a cabbie name of Reg Page was a friend of ours and lived at Manor House - because he said it was the first place he knew of when he came to London to become a cabbie!</p>
<p>Back in the 50s a cabbie name of Reg Page was a friend of ours and lived at Manor House - because he said it was the first place he knew of when he came to London to become a cabbie!</p> Thanks Eugene. Always wondere…tag:harringayonline.com,2013-03-25:844301:Comment:4728342013-03-25T11:51:14.196ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
<p>Thanks Eugene. Always wondered what that odd piece of platform was for.</p>
<p>Thanks Eugene. Always wondered what that odd piece of platform was for.</p> Talking about local tubes, th…tag:harringayonline.com,2013-03-24:844301:Comment:4727252013-03-24T19:14:27.316ZEMC2https://harringayonline.com/profile/E290
<p>Talking about local tubes, this is an interesting read <a href="http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/finsbury_park/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/finsbury_park/index.shtml</a></p>
<p>Talking about local tubes, this is an interesting read <a href="http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/finsbury_park/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/f/finsbury_park/index.shtml</a></p> Yes indeed - great guy. He ha…tag:harringayonline.com,2013-03-24:844301:Comment:4727892013-03-24T18:05:07.361ZAbihttps://harringayonline.com/profile/flump
<p>Yes indeed - great guy. He had a broadcasting career afterwards and had a regular slot on LBC, but seems to have gone into retirement/hiding now sadly. I miss his shows!</p>
<p>Yes indeed - great guy. He had a broadcasting career afterwards and had a regular slot on LBC, but seems to have gone into retirement/hiding now sadly. I miss his shows!</p> Not sure whether or not he wa…tag:harringayonline.com,2013-03-24:844301:Comment:4727082013-03-24T16:46:13.776ZHughhttps://harringayonline.com/profile/hjuk
<p>Not sure whether or not he was the first, but yes, I remember Fred Housego winning MM.</p>
<p>Not sure whether or not he was the first, but yes, I remember Fred Housego winning MM.</p> Am I right in recalling that…tag:harringayonline.com,2013-03-24:844301:Comment:4726962013-03-24T15:18:08.013ZArthur Astrophttps://harringayonline.com/profile/ArthurAstrop
<p>Am I right in recalling that the first winner of TV's Mastermind was a cabbie? Name of Housego?</p>
<p>Am I right in recalling that the first winner of TV's Mastermind was a cabbie? Name of Housego?</p> OK- best cabbie story everyon…tag:harringayonline.com,2013-03-24:844301:Comment:4729642013-03-24T14:39:54.619ZJustin Guesthttps://harringayonline.com/profile/JustinGuest
<p>OK- best cabbie story everyone? I sometimes spent time in cabs when I was travelling with work and arrived back in the UK at 4am. I used to get a cab from Paddington about 6 to get home. I would usually chat with the cabbie, asking them what time they started or their most famous passengers and what they thought of them (two mentioned Chris Tarrant- neither had anything good to say...).</p>
<p>I get into one cab and start chatting, it must have been about the time of the last general…</p>
<p>OK- best cabbie story everyone? I sometimes spent time in cabs when I was travelling with work and arrived back in the UK at 4am. I used to get a cab from Paddington about 6 to get home. I would usually chat with the cabbie, asking them what time they started or their most famous passengers and what they thought of them (two mentioned Chris Tarrant- neither had anything good to say...).</p>
<p>I get into one cab and start chatting, it must have been about the time of the last general election. The guy starts turning into some militant 1980's style Trotsky-ite. We get to my house and he is still going, and mid-stream about having written a song for the election, we pull up outside my house (6.30, I've been away for 2 weeks, on the road for nearly 24 hours, I am dirty, smelly, tired and 7 time zones out). He turns his engine off, and turns around (why are you turning around?), continuing to chat... (Ahhhhhhhhr!). I wanted to say "Shut Up!", but being English I politely listened as he finished... we were there a while.</p>
<p>I was so traumatised afterwards I mentioned him to a few other cabbies. To a man they all laughed and said "Oh, him- he's notorious!"...</p>