by BlackTaxiTours | Sep 30, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Everyone loves a secret garden. Theres something of ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ about it. But it can’t be any old secret garden. There’s got to be something special about it. Well London has got exactly that. Drive down Royal Hospital Road in Chelsea and you’ll...
by BlackTaxiTours | Sep 26, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
A pretty bold statement that. But like all ‘what if’ historical events you’ve got to use the facts and add a large dose of imagination. Take you back to 1850 and here on Park Street stood the Anchor Brewery, the largest brewery in Europe. It belonged to Barclay...
by BlackTaxiTours | Sep 22, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Downing Street is home to No 10, one of the most instantly recognisable and famous doors in the world. The official residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdon. Though only a few of the houses are occupied, Downing Street is often used as a metonym to...
by BlackTaxiTours | Sep 19, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
On the evening of 23rd February 1820, a group of radicals met secretly in this house on Cato Street, just off the Edgware Road, with just one thing on their mind. To murder the entire British cabinet. This was not the more famous Guy Fawkes Gunpowder Plot of 1605...
by BlackTaxiTours | Sep 18, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
The Corinthia hotel located in Whitehall Place is undoubtedly one of London’s premier hotels. A hotel has stood here since 1885 when it originally opened as the Metropole Hotel. But it is sobering to consider that during the building’s illustrious career as a hotel,...
