by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 13, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. A Conversation with Oscar Wilde” by Maggi Hambling, Charing Cross, London. Author Luke McKernan Hidden away on Adelaide Street at the back of St Martins in the Fields is one of London’s weirdest statues. It’s of Oscar Wilde, the poet and...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 11, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
By Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11327676 It’s always great when you can show people remnants from the past that conjure up an image of London from a previous age. The York Watergate in...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 8, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. Past and Present, no. 3 Despair , by Augustus Egg, 1858, set in the Adelphi Arches The term ‘Dickensian’ conjures up an image of London during the times of Charles Dickens that is dark, dingy and even downright dangerous, which to be honest,...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 7, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
Courtesy of Wikipedia. Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). Have you ever wondered where they film all those scenes on London’s underground in movies like James Bond’s Skyfall? Well, the answer is here, at one of London’s disused tube stations. At first glance,...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 6, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
By Yoho2001 at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6769190 Okay, I admit it. I love fanlights. I’m talking about the fanlights you see above Georgian townhouse doors like the ones on Buckingham Street near the...
by BlackTaxiTours | Apr 4, 2024 | Black Taxi Tours of London
This modest looking watch tower with its grim purpose firmly embedded in the past, was built to deter the grisly practice of body snatching from the adjoining St Sepulchre Church graveyard. As the science of human surgery developed in the late 18th century, there was...
