Erection date: 1930
The site of Garraways Coffee House. Rebuilt 1874. Set here 1930.
The grasshopper was Thomas Gresham's family symbol and appears on a number of buildings in this area, in particular the Royal Exchange. Presumably it indicates that this lovely and very popular plaque was erected by the Gresham family or their business interests.
EC3, Change Alley
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Garraways Coffee House
Garraway claimed to be the first to sell tea to the public, but not, as far a...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Garraways Coffee House
The quotation comes from a school morning prayer much quoted on the net but we could find no source.
The text on the top plaque refers to two locations: "here and at the Eton Manor Club in Hackney Wick". But that plaque and the others wit...
This plaque was brought to our attention by Lionel Wright. The erection date is unknown but it was before 3 June 2022 when the official m...
London County Council Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1843-1911, statesman and author, lived here.
Greater London Council Sir Alexander Fleming, 1881-1955, discoverer of penicillin, lived here.
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