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.
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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 ...
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Lee Valley Estates
A company which provides workspace throughout the Lee Valley and which helps small and medium sized enterprises to prosper and grow.
1 memorial
Pollock's toy theatre shop
This was started by John Redington, selling printed sheets of characters and scenery for toy theatres. He ran it until his death when his family took over. 1877 his daughter Eliza married Benjamin ...
1 memorial
Kindersley Workshop
From the Workshop's website: "David Kindersley {1915–1995}, lettercutter, sculptor and inventor, started his workshop near Cambridge in 1946, having been apprenticed to Eric Gill. He was joined in ...
1 memorial
Hay's Wharf
The land between Tooley Street and the Thames has been occupied by wharves and warehouses since the middle ages. Hay's Wharf originated as a Tooley Street brew-house of which Alexander Hay took own...
7 memorials
Honsway C&E Foundation
We believe this is/was a commercial organisation with offices in Gerrard Street.
1 memorial
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Homer
Ancient Greek poet. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, which date from somewhere in the range 9th - 7th century BC.
5 memorials
Tea industry - the City
EC4, High Timber Street, Sir John Lyon House, 8
From London Tea History: "The 3rd plaque, sponsored by Tata Consumer Products, has been erected at Sir John Lyon House in London EC4V 3PA...
4 subjects commemorated,
2 creators
St James's Gardens, W11
RBKC and British History Online have a lot of information about the creation of this square, with plans and drawings.
2 memorials
International Brigade
SE1, Jubilee Gardens
The quote “they went….other way” is a paraphrase of two lines from C. Day Lewis’s 1938 poem, The Volunteer. “Yet, Freedom… against the wi...
1 subject commemorated,
6 creators
Nine Elms Motive Power
This depot was responsible for the locomotives working out of Waterloo. Locomotive, carriage and wagon workshops were built in 1839 in Vauxhall at the end of Nine Elms Lane. Rebuilt following an 18...
2 memorials
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