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London’s Green Boxes: The Cabmen’s Shelters You may have walked past them and wondered: what are those small, dark-green huts at street corners —those weird little boxes with hatches and dim light inside? Well, they're cabmen’s shelters: relics of Victorian London still alive, still serving. Built…

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London’s Green Boxes: The Cabmen’s Shelters You may have walked past them and wondered: what are those small, dark-green huts at street corners —those weird little boxes with hatches and dim light inside? Well, they're cabmen’s shelters: relics of Victorian London still alive, still serving. Built from necessity, not nostalgia. The shelters are small sanctuaries for London’s black cabbies, born when laws forbade them leaving their cabs unattended; when the wind cut through bones, rain dripped through coat collars, and all they wanted was a hot tea, a dry bench, somewhere to rest without abandoning their duty. https://londonopia.co.uk/londons-green-boxes-the-cabmens-shelters/