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What the little green pavilions found on London streets are really used for
taxi drivers.‘I go to the one in Russell Square almost every day,’ says Ian Page, 56, who has driven a black cab for more than 25 years. The Arsenal fan and cabbie’s son keeps a team mug at the shelter, where Jude Holmes, one of the keepers, doesn’t have to ask for his order.It was at the shelter, just down the road from the British Museum, that Page met Tom Skipp, a photographer who had become fascinated by the huts 15 years ago, when he used to buy his lunch at a shelter while working in an office on Hanover Square.‘Only licensed black cab drivers are allowed in, but you could buy a ploughman’s for about £3.50 through the window,’ says Skipp, 43, who now lives in Bristol.
