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
The Round House Remains of the windmill used c.1709 - 1720 to pump water from the round pond to the upper pond (now Claremont Square rese...
There are two other plaques on the front of this building. They don't commemorate anything so we can't really enter them as memorials but...
Jewish cryptographer, Leopold (Leo) Samuel Marks, MBE, lived in flat 410 Park West, when Chief of Codes at Special Operations Executive (...
This cast-iron roundel, showing 4 tankards around an eagle motif, is one of 22 - see Bowler's page for more details.
Richard Tauber, 1891 - 1948, lyric tenor, lived here in flat 297, 1947 - 1948. English Heritage
