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London Tea History Association

Categories: Commerce, Food & Drink, History

Founded to record and commemorate over 335 years of the World’s tea trade in London.

Feb 2018 City Matters reported that "a statue recognising the City’s pivotal position in the tea trade planned for 1 Undershaft have {sic} been shelved for fear of public backlash over its ties to colonialism."  The Evening Standard has images showing the statue, which is a realistic depiction of an Indian woman tea plucker with a basket full of leaves, back to back with a black London docker unloading the finished product.

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London Tea History Association

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Tea industry - Shoreditch

Now, where's the best place to attach this plaque? Oh, there's a lamppost clo...

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Tea industry - the City

Sir John Lyon House and the Tea Trade {Much of the text on this plaque is a ...

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Tea trade - St Katharine Docks

The Tea Trade at St Katharine Docks This plaque commemorates 335 years of th...

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Pilot Officer John Forster Withy

Pilot Officer John Forster Withy

John Forster Withy was born on 25 October 1911 in West Hartlepool, Durham, the younger child of Henry Daubeny Withy (1882-1914) and Emily Edith Withy née Wilson (1879-1932). His birth was registere...

Person, Armed Forces, Commerce

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
City Road turnpike

City Road turnpike

From Geograph: This turnpike was merged into the Metropolitan Turnpike Trust by act of parliament and closed by the enactment of the Metropolis Roads Amendment Act 1863 (c.78). From 1 July 1864. S...

Building, Commerce, Transport

1 memorial
Worshipful Company of Skinners

Worshipful Company of Skinners

Originally an association of fur traders, it is now an educational and charitable institution. It is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

Group, Commerce, Education, Liveries & Guilds

1 memorial
Cantor & Nissel Ltd

Cantor & Nissel Ltd

Contact lens manufacturers.  Founded by David Cantor.  Acquired Nissel Limited in August 2000.

Group, Commerce

1 memorial
Leadenhall Market

Leadenhall Market

The meat and fish Market first occupied a series of courts, behind the grand lead-roofed city mansion of Nevill House on Leadenhall Street, in the 14th Century. As early as 1321 it was an establis...

Place, Commerce, Food & Drink

1 memorial