CREATIVECABBIES Elsewhere this year...
Baker Street is always the address for passen- gers taking a taxi with Manchester based cabbie Keith Coleman. It’s just one of the hits the 57 year old cabbie serenades passengers with on his saxaphone. (Picture 1) July page 26.
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Accompanying John Coleman on his saxa- phone is Mark Pharaoh on his violin. (Picture 4)
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And supplying the riffs is John Mackswith. He has a Rolling Stones recording so rare that even Mick Jagger (whoever he is) has never heard it. John is an Essex minicab driver who has a recording dating back to 1964 after he met the legendary rockers. To find out how he came by this rock parephenalia see March page 45 (Picture 5).
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How about a crois- sant with your coffee? If you are in Birmingham you might be in luck as cabbie baker
turned Arif
Mohammed might supply you. (Pic- ture 2) December page 20.
In May we learned of taxi driver Justin Sneddon who’s hobby has turned into something quite more. His photographs have earned him a repu- tation of being the next big thing. His work can be found on his website (see main story) and he attributes his success due to his artistic back- ground having studied art at Central St Martins in Kings Cross and Bournemouth Art College. Take the time to see his work. May page 30.
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Fancy an enthralling read? Find out about Belfast’s cabbies and their stories during the Troubles. Lee Henry recounts some stories in a fascinating novel. (Picture 6) May page 30.
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And John Barnes, the Darlington taxi driver who has decided to go the extra step by publicising his novel of special force soldiers in Africa by liv- erying up his cab as an advertisement. (Picture 8) March page 44.
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However my particular favourite concerns the Dorchester artist, Paul Dilworth, who has pro- duced for young readers the exploits of Toby the Taxi in a series of books for children. In the first of the series, Toby and his owner, Mr Phillips, travel across London. They visit London Zoo, Buckingham Palace and he even gets a clean at a car wash. Toby also delivers visitors to the Queen’s garden party, but is disap- pointed because he doesn’t get to meet Her Majesty. He does however get to meet a Cockney pearly King Queen.
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Then there was the poet come taxi driver, Duggy Verill who has published a book of his poetry. February page 12 picture 10. And then picture 11 shows ex Romanian footballer Rus Yaler who is now a taxi driv- er
in Gillingham
We’ve had several other authors and self-publicists this year, many of whom have chosen to commit to print
their experiences.
Amongst them is the Old- ham based driver writing about snooker. (Picture 7) March page 45.
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March page 44. And finally Jim Walker, a London taxi driver has produced a board game for all the family called Bridge Up which is centred around, not surpris- ingly, Tower Bridge February page 12 picture 12.
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