by BlackTaxiTours | Mar 28, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
I think its safe to say that Red Lion Square Gardens doesn’t figure on the list of most visited squares in London. That honour normally goes to the more glamorous squares around Mayfair and Westminster. Which is a shame really, as this square just off Holborn, is a...
by BlackTaxiTours | Mar 25, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
You’ll find that every area in London has its favourite boozer. It comes from the days when London was a series of villages so that ‘the local’ was an important meeting place. Here in Islington, probably the coolest borough in the capital, The Old Red Lion was a firm...
by BlackTaxiTours | Mar 16, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. The site of the Scaffold on Tower Hill London where many notables were executed. Author Bryan MacKinnon 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...
by BlackTaxiTours | Mar 7, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Next time you pour yourself a glass of water from the kitchen tap, spare a thought for London’s early pioneers who grappled with the difficult question of how to supply clean water to a growing city. Meet Sir Hugh Myddelton, honoured here by this statue in the cool...
by BlackTaxiTours | Mar 4, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
