by BlackTaxiTours | Oct 23, 2023 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Amongst the explosion of new modern buildings surging skywards in the City you can still find relics from the past dotted around that remind us of the city’s extraordinary and sometimes tragic history. One example is the ‘Aldgate pump’ found on the pavement at the...
by BlackTaxiTours | Oct 12, 2023 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Few churches in London, or anywhere I would imagine, carry such a grim image over their entrance as St Olave’s in Hart Street. Look up and you are greeted with not a very cheerful threesome of skulls gazing down at you; their hollow eye sockets sending a...
by BlackTaxiTours | Oct 8, 2023 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Everyone knows the cry ‘off with his head’ but how many people visiting the Tower of London fail to spot the Tower’s most notorious execution site just across the road in a small sectioned off area within the now pleasant Trinity Gardens. In fact, comparatively few...
