The Knowledge

Camel jockeys hit Tower Bridge today. A derelict plot of land on Oxford Street is to be put to use as a temporary event venue. A convicted murderer with, um, psychological issues is studying for the Knowledge. Do you live in one of Boris’ proposed …

A 19 year old boy has become the youngest ever candidate to pass The Knowledge. Good news for the Public Carriage Office who need to attract younger drivers to the trade. The taxing test, which takes normal people about 30 months to study for and …

Derek O’Reilly is about as close as you can get to a bonafide Black Cab Celebrity. A true Londoner born in Hackney at the Old Mothers Hospital and resident of Islington for over 20 years he recently transplanted to Wapping. Not only has he been …

Ever been in a position of directing your Black Cab driver to your destination? Now’s your change to test your true knowledge tonight at the London Transport Museum’s Knowledge Quiz. Quizmaster Derek O’Reilly from the Knowledge Point School will pose four sets of six questions …

Next time you turn down a proffered tête-à-tête with a chirpie cabbie, you could be missing out on a satisfying cultural exchange. Who knows whether your driver is a painter, origami champion or candle-stick maker? Black cab driver Dominic Shannon has spent nine years of …

We don’t want to get burned again by a false rumour, like the sadly inaccurate story that Madonna was buying a London pub so take the following with a shtickl of salt: Kate Moss has apparently solved her transport woes by snapping up a black …

We fell in love with Black Cab Sessions the moment we first heard of them. How could we not? Taking a drive around the best city in the world (okay, we’re biased, yes) in a design classic with some of our favourite bands rockin’ out …

It’s not really news that hailing a cab in the middle of the night is getting harder. We can remember the days when you could step out of a bar at midnight or tumble out of a club rather later and still expect to find …

If you could release a spoken word album of cabbie stories you would have to advertise it in a K-Tel Hit Parade LP style. It would sound something like this: New from K-Tel, it’s the 100 best Cabbie stories coming to all good record stores! …

Magnus Magnusson died. What a great name he had. If only he’d been born in the 10th century his starter for ten would have been a Viking axe to the face. As it was the Reykjavik born Magnusson became the UK’s grand inquisitor on the …