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 plaque names only 6 relief panels but there are 7, music being represented twice.
The decorative shield is in the pediment. The Iyengar plaque is below the window on the left. Although the New Cross (Equitable) Buildin...
In 1903-10 the Savoy Hotel was built by Colcutt and Macmurdo. The magnificently Art Deco Savoy Theatre is in the western section. The sho...
{Beneath the WRNS badge:} On this site in January 1918 Dame Katharine Furse GBE established the first headquarters of the WRNS. Women's R...
The small black plaque above the door shows the Bridge House Estates symbol. A number of other blocks of flats in this area carry similar...
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