by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 12, 2026 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Piccadilly Circus is one of London’s best-known landmarks, recognised today for its bright advertising screens, busy streets and central location. But its story begins far more modestly than that. The name Piccadilly comes from “piccadills,” the stiff, frilled...
by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 9, 2026 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Soho has always been the kind of London neighbourhood where new ideas turn up early and tucked away on one of its most historic streets about 100 years ago, a quiet technological revolution began. In the mid-1920s, John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor best known as...
by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 6, 2026 | Black Taxi Tours of London
A charming oddity this. Smith’s Square Hall, located near Westminster is best known today as a performance and events space. Its origins, however, lie in the early 18th century, and its history reflects both London’s architectural ambition and its ability to adapt...
by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 4, 2026 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Meet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma – statesman, naval officer and esteemed member of the British Royal Family. And if you think that’s quite a mouthful you should know that he was actually born Prince Louis...
by BlackTaxiTours | Feb 3, 2026 | Black Taxi Tours of London
The first meeting between Samuel Johnson and James Boswell has become one of those moments in literary history that feels almost theatrical in its timing and setting. It was May 16th, 1763, inside Davies’s bookshop on Russell Street in Covent Garden, a bustling hub of...
