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    CONFESSIONS OF A CABBIE

    Mar 13, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS JENNY ROWE

    Your black cab driver might be the first person you meet when you arrive in London. Though a chirpy cockney accent and friendly welcome are commonplace, flawless knowledge of their home city is a given.

    Gary Mankelow, a London tour guide and black cabbie for 25 years, tells us what it takes to be a driver in one of the world’s largest cities and spills a few of the cabbies’ best-kept secrets.

    London’s taxi service is famously reliable. How are the city's black cab drivers selected?

    If you can stick at it, anyone can become a London cab driver, it just takes a lot of time and

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