Founded to record and commemorate over 335 years of the World’s tea trade in London.
Feb 2018 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 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.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
London Tea History Association
Now, where's the best place to attach this plaque? Oh, there's a lamppost clo...
Sir John Lyon House and the Tea Trade {Much of the text on this plaque is a ...
The Tea Trade at St Katharine Docks This plaque commemorates 335 years of th...
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...
Born Jersey. Aged 15 joined John Maples, Furniture dealer, and progressed to being vice-president of of the store in Tottenham Court Road. 1870 married. Alderman of St Pancras Borough Council. Live...
Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Politics & Administration, Channel Islands
See Joseph Lyons and J. Lyons & Co. The photo is probably c.1930/40s.
In 1887 Bostall Farm was bought by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society and run to provide vegetables for the Co-op shops and food for the Society’s horses and pigs. By 1899 it had been decided t...
From PubWiki: "It was originally established in 1549 on the north side of Fleet Street at No. 190. In the 1600s the pub was called the Cock & Bottle. The original pub closed in 1886 and was dem...
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