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.
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
Sir John Lyon House and the Tea Trade {Much of the text on this plaque is a ...
100,000 costermongers' donkeys worked in and around the market. The picture source says: "In the 1860s there were as many as 2,000 donkey barrows on a Saturday morning in Covent Garden Market."
From Tottenham Quakers "In 1798 Priscilla Wakefield founded the first "frugality bank" in England. This she founded at Ship Inn Yard in Tottenham. It was intended to help people on lower incomes t...
From British History: "...'Pope's Head', mentioned as early as the reign of Edward IV. Here, in the reign of Henry VI., wine was sold at a penny a pint, without charge for bread."
Mining magnate and politician in southern Africa. Prime Minister of the Cape Colony 1890-96. As a businessman he founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which ...
Eel, pie and mash shop. Founded by husband and wife William and Emily Arment, and still run by their descendants. We don't know if our picture shows the real David Jason as 'Del Boy' or whether the...