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 | Nov 9, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
This highly decorated Art deco building on the corner of Fulham Road comes as a lovely 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 brought up by...
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...
by BlackTaxiTours | Sep 30, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
St Olave’s Church on the corner of Seething Lane and Hart Street, is one of the few medieval churches in the City of London to survive the Fire of London, though fail to escape the Blitz, having to be extensively restored. Samuel Pepys who lived nearby was a...
by BlackTaxiTours | Sep 7, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
On September 7th 1940, during WW2, approximately 350 German bombers appeared in the sky over London and carried out the first bombing raid in what became a sustained air campaign against the capital. Over 450 Londoners died that day. The Blitz had started. The battle...
by BlackTaxiTours | Sep 1, 2020 | Black Taxi Tours of London
The Great Fire of London of 1666 started in the early hours of 2nd September and raged for 3 days before it finally burnt itself out. It left a scene of total devastation in its wake. Over 51 Churches, 13,000 houses and many public buildings, some 80% of the city,...
