by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 22, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Take a left off Borough High Street just before Tabard Street, and you’ll find yourself walking down a fairly non-descript alley called Angel Place. On one side is a modern office building and the other a high brick wall. Wait a minute. Look again at that wall. Does...
by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 16, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
One of my favourite stories about the now hugely popular Bankside, concerns the plaque on the wall of a cottage standing virtually alone amongst it’s more prominent and later-built neighbours. The story goes like this. Back in the 1960’s when Bankside was run down and...
by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 13, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
On the north side of the Thames, at low tide, an extraordinary relic of Anglo Saxon London reveals itself. Go back to the 9th century, and London was coming under increasing attack from Viking raids all along the Thames. King Alfred decided to move the Saxon...
by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 6, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Before 1750 the only bridge across the Thames was London Bridge (Londoners referred to it as ‘the bridge’) and was so congested, that often the quickest way of getting across the river was by using a waterman or ferryman. Thousands of watermen in skiffs or wherries...
by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 2, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
In this modern age of the ubiquitous and futuristic glass skyscraper (as exciting as they undoubtedly are) it comes as an amusing surprise to happen on Lombard Street with its historic hanging signs. Explanation? Let’s time-travel back to the 13th century where the...