London Taxi Tour

London Taxi Tour The London Taxi's are almost as famous as the City of London, England itself. londontaxitour.com We also provide taxis for television and movie shoots.

LondonTaxiTour.Com provide personalised tours of London and the surrounding towns and countryside. We specialise in film location tours based around Harry Potter and James Bond, but can incorporate many other film locations on request. London airport layover tours are another speciality of ours as well.

30/05/2026

You know the gun next to the D-Day one outside the IWM.�This one missed.�Built in 1916. Active service basically nil. Tried to hit the Italian fleet in 1940 and could not reach.�The Navy retired it the following year.�Its own motto admits the situation. Fidelis sed Infelix. Faithful but Unfortunate.�Brutal.�Did the Navy give your line of work a Latin motto.

29/05/2026

How do you get a 100-ton battleship gun to the Normandy coast.�Answer. Bolt it to a barge and hope.�This barrel fired on a German battery on D-Day morning from HMS Roberts, a ship best described as a gun with a boat attached.�It has been standing outside the Imperial War Museum since 1968.�Did you know.

26/05/2026

Two 100-ton gun barrels are just sitting in a park in London and most people walk past them on the way to the Tate. WW1 didn't just change warfare. It industrialised it. This is what that looks like up close.

23/05/2026

In 1945 the Yugoslav royal family were in exile in London. Their heir needed to be born on Yugoslav soil. The solution? Winston Churchill declared a suite at Claridge’s to be Yugoslav territory for the birth. Crown Prince Alexander was born in that room. London has always played a longer game than most cities realise.

15/05/2026

This bollard fought the British.
You may have walked past it this morning without looking.
• It is a French cannon, buried upside down
• The fuse hole is still on it somewhere
• 200 years of grime and London weather have hidden it
• Nobody has officially confirmed where it went
Britain captured French warships. The guns did not fit British carriages, so someone made a decision. Flip them. Plant them. Call it infrastructure.
The Gherkin is younger than the memory of this cannon being put here.
Go find the fuse hole. That is what London does.

14/05/2026

Tourists think this lion guards Parliament. It used to guard a brewery.
The South Bank Lion sat on the roof of the Lion Brewery on the site of what is now the Royal Festival Hall. Beer, not democracy.
When they demolished the brewery, thousands of Londoners petitioned to save it. King George VI stepped in personally. For a brewery lion. Very British.
It then got painted red and parked outside Waterloo station. You couldn’t make it up.
It’s not actually stone. It’s Coade stone, a ceramic material, and one of the very last pieces ever made at the Coade factory. Nearly 200 years old and looks brand new.
A king saved a brewery mascot. It now watches over a hospital. That’s what London does.
Would you have spotted it without this video?

12/05/2026

Every one of these hearts on the wall at Albert Embankment represents a person who died in the UK with Covid on their death certificate.
There are over 250,000 of them.
In March 2021, more than a thousand volunteers turned up and painted 150,000 hearts in ten days. No council approval. No government sign-off. Just bereaved people who needed to make the scale of it visible.
The wall runs for 500 metres directly opposite Parliament. That was not accidental. The families who built it wanted the people inside that building to be able to see exactly what the numbers meant.
In November 2025, it was finally confirmed as a permanent national memorial. The families who started it in grief had to campaign for years to make that happen.
One useful detail most people miss. The wall faces St Thomas’ Hospital as well as Parliament. Two institutions. One wall. The people who died in the wards. The people who were supposed to prevent it. All in the same line of sight.
That’s what London does.
Did you know the wall exists? Have you been?

They built it on a swamp. Then filled it with politicians. Some things never change.The Palace of Westminster sits on Th...
11/05/2026

They built it on a swamp. Then filled it with politicians. Some things never change.
The Palace of Westminster sits on Thorney Island, a marshy patch of land where two streams met the Thames. The Romans avoided it. The Saxons built a church on it. Edward the Confessor made it the seat of royal power in 1042.
Every law passed in Britain for nearly a thousand years has come from a bog.

10/05/2026

Most people photograph the wrong door.
The famous black door at Downing Street is blast-proof steel, fitted in 1991 after a mortar attack. The original is in a museum.
Adam Street, off the Strand. Built 1768. Same decade, same craftsmen as Downing Street.
This door is still original.
London keeps doing this. The replica gets the crowds. The real thing stands around the corner with a fresh coat of paint.
Go find it.

09/05/2026

Most jewellers wait for customers.
Wartski waits for empires to fall. Russian Revolution? They called the Soviets. Bought the Easter Eggs. Egyptian coup? They booked a flight to Cairo. Bought the crown jewels. Royal wedding? They made the rings. Twice. Ian Fleming shopped here. Of course he did.
160 years. One family. One very specific business model.
The great-great-grandson of the founder is in the building right now on St James’s Street.
That’s not jewellery retail. That’s geopolitical opportunism with very good taste.
That’s what London does.
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