by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 19, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. Albert Bridge, London. Author Iridescent Everyone loves a nickname and London has loads of them. It’s almost an English obsession to dream up a cute name to sum up something or somewhere. One of my favourites is the Trembling Lady. Albert...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 15, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia: Author Abravelle. 26 February 2021. On Cheyne Walk facing the river, lies a truly magnificent grade II listed 15th century mansion. Now privately owned, it is the only surviving example of a medieval merchant house in London. While that’s quite...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 13, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. A Conversation with Oscar Wilde” by Maggi Hambling, Charing Cross, London. Author Luke McKernan Hidden away on Adelaide Street at the back of St Martins in the Fields is one of London’s weirdest statues. It’s of Oscar Wilde, the poet and...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 11, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
By Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11327676 It’s always great when you can show people remnants from the past that conjure up an image of London from a previous age. The York Watergate in...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 8, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. Past and Present, no. 3 Despair , by Augustus Egg, 1858, set in the Adelphi Arches The term ‘Dickensian’ conjures up an image of London during the times of Charles Dickens that is dark, dingy and even downright dangerous, which to be honest,...
