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Final green hut which offered Victorian cabbies food and rest gets listed status

Historic green huts which gave Victorian cabbies shelter and a place to eat in London are now all protected buildings, after the final shelter in St John’s Wood was listed.

The cabmen’s shelter on Wellington Place was listed at Grade II and is the

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