by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 7, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Have you ever wondered where they film all those scenes on London’s underground in movies like James Bond’s Skyfall? Well, the answer is here, at one of London’s disused tube stations. At first glance,...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 6, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
By Yoho2001 at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6769190 Okay, I admit it. I love fanlights. I’m talking about the fanlights you see above Georgian townhouse doors like the ones on Buckingham Street near the...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 4, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
This modest looking watch tower with its grim purpose firmly embedded in the past, was built to deter the grisly practice of body snatching from the adjoining St Sepulchre Church graveyard. As the science of human surgery developed in the late 18th century, there was...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 2, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. Author Mrs Ellacot. 17 September 2014. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Most people know that Cleopatras Needle on Victoria Embankment is pretty old – it dates from about 1450BC...
by BlackTaxiTours | Mar 26, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Three views on one plate of the Priory of St John of Jerusalem, in Clerkenwell,” etching, by the Czech-British artist and printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar. 325 mm x 380 mm. Courtesy of the British Museum, London. I find place name origins fascinating, especially...
