by BlackTaxiTours | Nov 14, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
I can already hear you saying what? This is actually a saying from the 19th century and refers to a row of bronze lion’s heads with open mouths that line the Thames along the Victoria Embankment. They were put there in 1868-187 at the same time the river was being...
by BlackTaxiTours | Nov 11, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Mount Street is well known to London’s cab drivers. With its beautiful 18th century Queen Anne architecture, it’s home to expensive restaurants, fashion houses, jewellery shops and one of London’s finest hotels, The Connaught – a hotel so exclusive it was said you...
by BlackTaxiTours | Nov 5, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
If there was ever a case of ‘I told you so’, this pub in Broadwick Street is it. It’s named after the British epidemiologist and anaesthetist John Snow who, in 1854 during the Soho cholera epidemic, was virtually the lone voice in identifying contaminated water as the...
by BlackTaxiTours | Nov 2, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Evocative street names abound in London but one that definitely hints at a troubled past is Bleeding Heart Yard, a cobbled courtyard just off Greville Street in Hatton Gardens. Origin? Ready for a good yarn or two? One legend tells the story of the wife of the Lord...
by BlackTaxiTours | Oct 27, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
It’s unsurprising that a city as old as London has such an abundance of narrow alleys and tucked away lanes. Many are well trod, the oldest and most attractive, tourist attractions in their own right, developing a kind of ‘film set’ quality over the...
