London's Best Kept Secret | CabMens Shelters | Budget Eating London

Cabmen’s shelters are green-painted roadside sheds surviving at 13 locations in central London. Sir George Armstrong established the Cabmen’s Shelter Fund in 1875 to provide Hackney carriage drivers with a refuge where they could get a hot meal and a cup of tea, but strictly no alcohol. Similar facilities had previously been introduced in Edinburgh and Birmingham. Sixty-one such structures were erected in the capital, many individually endowed by a local philanthropist, who would also benefit from the improved availability of cabs, and more sober drivers.
Depending largely on the area in which they were located, the quality of the establishment could range from sordid to almost luxurious. Many of the shelters had nicknames, like the Bell and Horns at Thurloe Place, South Kensington; the Nursery End, near Lord’s; and the Junior Turf Club, on Piccadilly. The latter nickname was said to derive from an invading clientele of aristocratic champagne drinkers in the 1920s.
A visitor to the Westbourne Grove shelter in September 1888, calling himself ‘Dr J. Duncan’, was said to have confessed to the Jack the Ripper murders. The explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton was a regular at the Hyde Park Corner shelter, while the artist John Singer Sargent used the one near the Ritz. In the 1890s bohemian poets like Ernest Dowson treated their local shelters as a second home:
Most shelters nowadays open only from breakfast to lunchtime and enforce a ‘cabbies only’ rule at the tables inside; several also provide a takeaway service from a window.

• Chelsea Embankment SW3 – close to its junction with Albert Bridge, London
• Embankment Place WC2 – close to the Playhouse Theatre
• Grosvenor Gardens SW1 – to the west side of the north gardens
• Hanover Square, London W1 – on the north side of the central gardens
• Kensington Park Road W11 – outside numbers 8–10
• Kensington Road W8 – close to the junction of Queen's Gate SW7
• Pont Street SW1 – close to the junction of Sloane Street
• Russell Square WC1 – Western Corner (relocated here from Leicester Square)
• St. George's Square, Pimlico SW1 – on the north side
• Temple Place WC2 – opposite side of the road from the Swissötel Howard
• Thurloe Place, Kensington SW7
• Warwick Avenue, London W9 – a center of the road, by Warwick Avenue Underground station
• Wellington Place NW8 – near Lord's Cricket Ground
Londons Best Kept Secret | CabMans Shelters | Budget Eating London
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[robina]

Never knew about them in all my years. Probably walked past without realising. Brilliant. A timeless bit of history. Hope they last forever.

[asheholeo]

that was brilliant information indeed.

[BustaHymen]

Those sandwiches looked deliciuos, and even without inflation those prices would've been a bargain.

[craigleewhite]

Yes SweetBalls.
Because of the wonderful color of the Cabin reminds me of the front door at home as a kid. Yes Bacon rolls, crusty rolls and gallons of hot Coffee to wash it all down. Just got a load of Liver and Onion done, got the wild boar to add later.
Never seen those before? I felt London as an alright place to pass through the train stations can't say I know anywhere in the City. It's becoming a pain in the ass to walk across a road here South West, where I live nowadays. The Humans who we don't take by the way are more and more like robots everyday. Ignorant. Stupid. Lazy. Obstinate all sorts of true colours. I'm better than this! How do I get into the business SweetBalls:) From Craig.