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
Bernado O’Higgins, 1778 - 1842, general, statesman and liberator of Chile, lived and studied here. English Heritage
1907 was the year that a regular transatlantic radio-telegraph service begun and the year that Marconi was recognised with a Nobel Prize....
Sir Charles MacKerras, CH, AC, CBE, 1925 - 2010, conductor and musicologist, lived here. The Public Memorials Appeal
Turner bought the land, in the deep countryside in 1807. He designed the house and it was built by 1813, as Solus Lodge. This was his cou...
Lived in Loughton from 1954, and lived here with his family 1967-2004, his death.
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