Call Sign Feb 08
Call Sign Feb 08
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<strong>Call</strong> <strong>Sign</strong> <strong>Feb</strong>ruary 20<strong>08</strong> Page 20<br />
To celebrate their<br />
THE LTFUC THROW TH<br />
<strong>Call</strong> <strong>Sign</strong> felt honoured to be at the LTFUC 80th birthday celebrations at the Grosvenor House<br />
Hotel on Sunday 20 January and couldn’t help but wonder… whatever would Mick Cohen<br />
have made of it…?<br />
Mick Cohen grew up in the Norwood orphanage and later on in life became a cab driver. One<br />
of his ambitions was always to go back to Norwood to take some of the kids out on an outing in<br />
his cab. It was 1928, the year that UK women had their voting age reduced from 30 to 21, Alexander<br />
Fleming discovered penicillin, Herbert Hoover was elected US President and a taxi charity to become<br />
known as the London Taxidrivers Fund for Underprivileged Children was to become a reality<br />
at, of all places, the Leicester Square taxi shelter!<br />
Mick had casually mentioned his idea of taking some orphans on a trip around London ending at<br />
London Zoo and hoped that 2 or 3 other drivers would take their cabs as well. Twelve other drivers<br />
turned up, allowing them to take almost fifty kids and teachers on the outing.<br />
So successful was the outing that the drivers decided to offer help to any children that might<br />
need it and the Fund was eventually registered as a charity. Then in 1931, the first outing to<br />
Southend and as they say, the rest is history – one littered with Dial-a-Cab drivers as well from Jack<br />
Taylor to Sam Harris to those among the current committee. But it really is a celebration for the<br />
trade as a whole.<br />
The Band of the Scots Guards thrilled everyone<br />
The amazing Crazeehorse – poetry in motion<br />
And we think that Mick Cohen would have bee<br />
with not just fifty, but around 600 children, paren<br />
lives with enough food to sink a battleship, ente<br />
course, Dave Davis’ disco.<br />
Among the acts on show were the truly spect<br />
dancing champions Diversity, Britain’s Got Ta<br />
monkey Bubbles, extracts from every kids favou<br />
Time School of Arts and an amazing laser show<br />
at the party The Cheeky Girls - Monica and Ga<br />
hit records. Then there was the amazing robot, T<br />
around the hall! Also there, one of the most a<br />
Talent, Donovan Jones and Rebecca Peache w<br />
slow motion power dance involving some incr<br />
poetry in motion. It says much for the Fund th<br />
at the celebration.<br />
The Bournemouth Carnival Band were once<br />
Performers, the Stardance Club and the brilliant M<br />
The Cheeky Girls<br />
with the cheeky boy!
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