On this site between 1680 and 1778 stood Jonathan’s Coffee House, the principal meeting place of the City’s Stockbrokers.
The Corporation of the City of London
Site: Jonathan’s Coffee House (1 memorial)
EC3, Change Alley
On this site between 1680 and 1778 stood Jonathan’s Coffee House, the principal meeting place of the City’s Stockbrokers.
The Corporation of the City of London
EC3, Change Alley
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Jonathan’s Coffee House
Founded by Jonathan Miles in Exchange Alley around 1680. In 1698 John Castain...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Jonathan’s Coffee House
The municipal governing body of the City of London. Officially the 'Mayor and...
Perhaps the foliage on the plaque is an olive branch.
The Marchmont Association give the address at the time as 31 Tavistock Place. Old maps show a chapel (with various names over the years) ...
This building has a claim to be London's oldest skyscraper.
We puzzled for some time about the uncomfortable layout, with two names crammed in under 'students' followed by 9 other names. Were the 9...
We wouldn't normally include such a plaque but this one is very decorative.
South African freedom fighter. Born Johannesburg. Married Slovo in 1949; the writer Gillian Slovo is their daughter. Killed by a parcel bomb addressed to her in Mozambique where she was living in e...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Nationalism, Race Issues, Africa, South Africa
Unveiled on Czech National Day.
Michael Minh Matsushita was born on 25 May 1968 in Vietnam, the son of a South Vietnamese soldier killed in the conflict when he was just five months old. At the age of three, he and his mother, Mu...
Heath's upbringing is described as borderline between the working and middle classes.
The Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway (CCE&HR) ran from CC to Golders Green and also to (what is now known as) Archway. In 1912 it was extended south to Embankment. Then in the ea...
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