by BlackTaxiTours | Aug 23, 2021 | Black Taxi Tours of London
I have always had a fondness for Clerkenwell and for good reason too – there’s so much history here. St John’s Gate was originally the entrance to the Knights of St John, a monastic order set up during the Crusades to care for the ill on their...
by BlackTaxiTours | May 25, 2021 | Black Taxi Tours of London
A nice feature of Mayfair are the Victorian shopping arcades. They were built in the 19th century for refined ladies to go shopping without getting their shoes dirty. In those days the streets were covered in horse dung and dog muck and there were no pavements to...
by BlackTaxiTours | Mar 12, 2021 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Cheyne Walk seems on the face of it a surprising place to see this striking statue of Sir Thomas More, the Chancellor who dared to defy Henry VIII in his plan to marry Anne Boleyn, and paid the ultimate price. Erected in 1969, it marks the fact that More was a Chelsea...
by BlackTaxiTours | Mar 1, 2021 | Black Taxi Tours of London
This quirky little pub sits on the corner of Queen Victoria Street and New Bridge Street and always makes me smile when I drive past. The Art Nouveau wedge shaped building occupies the site of the old Blackfriars Dominican Friary, which stood here from 1217 to 1538....
by BlackTaxiTours | Oct 24, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
The last of London’s galleried pubs, they don’t come more historic than the George Inn. Originally there would have been numerous coaching Inns along Borough High Street, with travellers stopping on their way to the City to water their horses and get a bed...
