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
Cecil Hepworth (1874 - 1953) British film pioneer, lived in this house as a child. Commemorating the Centenary of Cinema, 1996. In associ...
English Heritage Sir George Frederic Still, 1868 - 1941, paediatrician, lived here.
Paul Nash, 1889 - 1946, war artist World Wars I & II, lived and worked here.
Reading right to left: De Pass; Rhodes-Moorhouse; Keysor; Campbell; Dunville; Colyer-Fergusson; Hewitt; Elliott-Cooper; Watson; Drummond;...
The incident commemorated takes place in the first Sherlock Holmes story "A Study in Scarlett" published in 1887. See the plaque at the C...
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