London Visit, September 2013: Taxi Tony

Leaving Los Angeles in Upper class on Virgin Atlantic was quite splendid. 

They have a bar, so one can go and have a drink with interesting people.  

I talked with a fascinating Belgian Internet mogul, Philippe Delhez, who 

used to be a French fighter pilot in the Serbian-Croatian conflict.  

Fascinating guy, spoke perfect English, He said the American pilots 

were very trigger-happy, and the French pilots tried to stop them 

from killing a lot of civilians...

The next day, at noon, Tony Walker, the famous Taxi Tony from 

7-Up and 56Up, picked us up in his cab and drove us all over London.

He first showed us EVERY house Winston Churchill lived in (!) 

and photographed Joan with the famous statue in Mayfair 

of Roosevelt and Churchill.  

We drove past St Pauls and on into Bethnal Green and Hackney, 

a formerly blue-collar area in London’s famous East End, now inhabited 

by Somalis, Pakistanis, and so on. We visited Tony’s 

Mowlem School where I filmed him at 7 years old

 (they treated him like royalty).

Mowlem School in Tony's day.

In the evening, we had a lovely reunion with David Samuelson, 

who was my cameramen on 7-Up, and is now late 80s, and very frail.