by BlackTaxiTours | Jul 2, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Neoclassical architecture doesn’t come any better than this. Ten Trinity Square originally housed the Port of London Authority whose job it was to collect river taxes – hence the figure of old Father Thames looking out from the top of the building.After...
by BlackTaxiTours | Jun 26, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Another wonderful example of Victorian engineering and architecture, I love driving under Holborn Viaduct which spans Farringdon Street. I always try to imagine the ‘lost’ River Fleet which would have flowed here (now converted to a subterranean sewer...
by BlackTaxiTours | Jun 16, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
This bronze sculpture of the two wartime allied leaders was erected in Bond Street in 1995, on the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The two men were very different in many ways. Churchill a former soldier and staunch Conservative while...
by BlackTaxiTours | Jun 8, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
This highly decorated Art deco building on the corner of Fulham Road comes as a very pleasant surprise. Built for the Michelin Company in 1911, what a sight it must have been! Classy Tyre fitting bays at the front and over 30,000 tyres stored in the basement which...
by BlackTaxiTours | May 21, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
There’s something reassuring and timeless about the Old Vic standing proudly at the intersection of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established here in South London in 1818 as a ‘minor theatre’ (as opposed to the more important ‘patent’...
by BlackTaxiTours | May 4, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
The last remaining wholesale market left in Central London, Smithfield not only boasts a stunning Victorian building (designed by Horace Jones, who also designed Tower Bridge) but also represents a continuous history of over 800 years of being a meat market on the...
