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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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Other Subjects

The North Star

The North Star

Purpose built as a pub, as can be seen from the handsome exterior, which boasts attractive embossed stars at the tops of the main pillar supports. Originally above this, at roof level, was an elabo...

Building, Commerce

1 memorial
World's first cash machine

World's first cash machine

In spite of the plaque's claim, there is evidence of a cash dispensing machine being used in Tokyo in 1966. The invention of the British version has been credited to John Shepherd-Barron of the pri...

Event, Commerce, Engineering

2 memorials
Laurence Corner Army Surplus

Laurence Corner Army Surplus

Closed when the owner, Victor Jamilly, died January 2007, aged 79.  The staff moved on and opened Squadron HQ in 121 Kentish Town Road.  Some sources give the opening date as 1947, but possibly tha...

Place, Armed Forces, Commerce

1 memorial
Lord Ritchie of Dundee

Lord Ritchie of Dundee

Chairman of the Port of London Authority in 1935.

Person, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
South Suburban Gas Company

South Suburban Gas Company

Founded as the North Surrey Gas Company, it became the Crystal Palace District Gas Company before changing to its final name in 1904. It amalgamated with various other companies and was nationalise...

Group, Commerce

1 memorial