Run 58 St John’s Way to Woodstock Avenue
London Taxi Knowledge Run 58 – Saturday April 3rd 2010 Leave St John’s Way via Archway Junction and then take Highgate Hill. Leave via Archway Junction and the go via Highgate Hill and around Hampstead Lane and to North End Road and Golders Green Road. View St John’s Way to Woodstock Avenue in a larger [...]
Turn again Whittington
Doing the London Taxi Knowledge on Good Friday Whilst almost everyone else was happy to get a long weekend off, it is time to make hay when doing the knowledge during a Public Holiday. It means you have an extra couple of days when the roads are quiet and most people are sleeping in. I [...]
Half Way Through Book 1
This weekend I did eleven runs and this means I am now halfway through the first book of the London Taxi Knowledge. It was a wet morning on Saturday and I was at Brent Cross at first light just after six. Then I was into town and while people were stumbling out of a club [...]
Day 5 – Streets of London
Hitting the streets of London So I was up bright and early this morning in my endeavour to drive 10 runs and get my bearings in London. Now that I am “Doing the Knowledge” I look at all the streets names of roads that I knew my way around. Being able to take all my [...]
Day 1 – Dedication, Determination and a CoP
Public Carriage Office Introductory Talk February 20th 2010 Sitting in the Public Carriage Office in Penton Street this afternoon I realised the clock had actually starting ticking on “doing the knowledge”. I had made my application to be a London Black Cab driver and taken my medical at the beginning of December and true to [...]