by BlackTaxiTours | Jan 11, 2026 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Rising above Trafalgar Square, Nelson’s Column is one of London’s most familiar and enduring monuments. It was built to honour Admiral Horatio Nelson, the naval commander who secured Britain’s victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, a turning...
by BlackTaxiTours | Jan 5, 2026 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Step through the doors of Rules on Maiden Lane in Covent Garden and you’re stepping into over two centuries of London’s culinary and cultural history. Founded in 1798 by Thomas Rule as a humble oyster bar, Rules has the distinction of being London’s...
by BlackTaxiTours | Dec 30, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Image By Jim Linwood from London – Statue Of The River God / Old Father Thames, Terrace Gardens, Richmond – London., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33659126. Who is Old Father Thames? Old Father London is a city imagined as an...
by BlackTaxiTours | Dec 17, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
The humble Christmas Tree which has brought delight to many a happy household, arrived in Britain in the late 18th century, and it’s the Royal Family that we’ve got to thank. Up till then the tradition over here had been just to decorate homes and churches with...
by BlackTaxiTours | Dec 11, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
London is happily blessed with many historic pubs, all of which like to boast they are the oldest and have the most interesting past. But the pub that probably just gets my vote, is the Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street. It looks like a pub from another age,...
by BlackTaxiTours | Dec 3, 2025 | Black Taxi Tours of London
The children’s nursery rhyme ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ was first published in the mid 1700’s though its origin’s probably lie further back in the Middle Ages. If there had been social media at the time you would have said that the nursery rhyme must have gone...
