by BlackTaxiTours | Jun 25, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Most people when visiting London will take in the big London parks like Hyde Park, Green Park and St James’s Park. But one of the nicest features of the city of Westminster are it’s tucked away garden squares. Some are private and for residents only while larger ones...
by BlackTaxiTours | Jun 19, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Another beautiful building with a famous past resident. In the days when virtually all scientists and mathematicians were men, Augusta Ada King, full title Countess of Lovelace (also known as Ada Lovelace) was something of a rarity. The only legitimate child of the...
by BlackTaxiTours | Jun 16, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Everyone loves an old library and tucked away modestly in the corner of St James’s Square is a building that must surely qualify as a hidden gem. It’s the London Library and was founded on the initiative of Thomas Carlyle in 1841, who was dissatisfied with some of the...
by BlackTaxiTours | Jun 11, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Okay, I grant you, this isn’t the original building, but the building that stood on the spot in St James’s Square during the Second World War (called Norfolk House) was where General Dwight David Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied forces, planned...
by BlackTaxiTours | Jun 9, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Love blue plaques on London buildings. Especially those that give a real sense of the period of history they belong to, as well as the person they portray. Take this one at 79 Pall Mall for instance. Belongs to Nell Gwynn, the most famous of all King Charles II...
