What a great story to wake up to this morning.
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A wonderful new life, a baby boy, bought into this world in the back of Rob Fenlon's Taxi.
Driver Rob Fenlon said:
No soiling charge was taken neither was the fare.. From me anyway... I have asked hailo to reimburse the family.
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Mother and baby doing well.
Brings back a few memories!
About 40 years ago I stopped for a young man furiously flagging me, jumping up and down in Elgin Avenue by the lights at Shirland Road. He was really pumped up with excitement and could hardly talk.
At first I was a bit weary of him, but he explained his wife needed to be taken to St Mary's Paddington rather quickly as she was about to give birth.
We got round to Lanhill Road and she was led out by another woman. But as she lifted her leg up to get in the cab she screamed "Its coming, it's coming"
She laid on the floor of the cab and within what seamed like just a few seconds we had another passenger, a beautiful baby boy.
By then the ambulance had arrived and the paramedics took over. The young lady and new arrival were tended too by the professionals and soon were transferred to the ambulance and although the man offered a fist full of notes for he mess (which I refused) within seconds everyone had gone.
As I lived in Kilburn Park road at that time, I didn't have far to go to clean up. Fantastic experience.
The baby boy, would today be around 40. And I saw him enter this world in my Taxi.
As Marc Turner said when posting the photo on FaceBook today, I hope when this baby is told "you were born in the back of a black cab" it doesn't say "what was a black cab"