Wholesalers of coffee, tea, cocoa and spices, located at 202 Blackfriars Road (2021).
The Daily Mail has an interesting 2004 article about tea tasting at the Wilson, Smithett tea brokers office, Southwark.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Wilson Smithett & Co Ltd
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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 ...
Other Subjects
Bank of England
Londonist have an interesting post about animals at the Bank of England. The Guardian, 16 April 2022, reporting on an exhibition at the Bank of England, informed that the Bank once owned 599 slave...
1 memorial
Royal Exchange
The Royal Exchange was established by Thomas Gresham in 1566, following his, and his father's, favourable experiences of the Antwerp Bourse as a place where merchants could arrange credit and loans...
1 memorial
Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society
Retailer. Originally established as the Royal Arsenal Supply Association, by twenty workers from the Royal Arsenal. It was renamed in 1872, and expanded from just being a food retailer, into a vast...
4 memorials
National Provident Institution
In 1835 two men, who had been successful with the Friends Provident Institution, selling life assurance only to Quakers, formed the less choosy National Provident Institution, opening for business ...
2 memorials
Anglo-Texan Society
Founded in London by author Graham Greene, its founding president. The Handbook of Texas gives a good history of the Society. Our thanks to Lori Grossman for providing information.
1 memorial
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Marc Bolan shrine - PRS
SW13, Queen's Ride
This site has evolved over the years from flowers place around the tree to become the shrine that it is today. The steps were probably i...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
Victoria Coach Station
Art Deco style purpose-built coach station, the largest in Britain. Opened by London Coastal Coaches, an association of coach operators. Architects were Wallis, Gilbert and Partners. Ian Visits g...
1 memorial
Beatrice Lilian Vickery
Civilian killed in the crash of Hampden bomber P4399. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this woman: Beatrice Lillian Daniels was born on 7 January 1891 in Warrington, Lancashire, a ...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
George Seferis - Chelsea
SW3, Sloane Avenue, 7
George Seferis, 1900 - 1971, poet, Nobel prizewinner, Greek ambassador, lived here.
1 subject commemorated
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