Event    From 31/8/1900 

First sale of Coca-Cola in Britain

Categories: Food & Drink

Image from the magnificent Advertising Archives. This is the earliest UK ad that we could find there: 1910s.

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First sale of Coca-Cola in Britain

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Coca-Cola lost plaque

The first pouring of Coca-Cola in Great Britain was on this site 31st August ...

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Royal Army Temperance Association

Royal Army Temperance Association

Created by Lord Frederick Roberts as the ArmyTemperance Association by amalgamating two other long-standing temperance associations all based in garrison towns. He also created the ArmyTemperance A...

Group, Food & Drink, Religion

1 memorial
Annie Frances Welford

Annie Frances Welford

Granddaughter of Richard Welford (1817-1858) who founded and ran Warwick Farm Dairies. Annie Frances Welford was born on 18 March 1871 the fifth of the six children of John Welford (1844-1924) and...

Person, Commerce, Food & Drink

2 memorials
Highbury Barn

Highbury Barn

Long a rural pleasure resort for Londoners it became notorious in 1861, when Edward Giovanelli demolished the old buildings and built a lavish pleasure ground which attracted large crowds, includin...

Place, Commerce, Food & Drink, Theatre

1 memorial
Rules Restaurant

Rules Restaurant

London's oldest restaurant. Opened by Thomas Rule primarily as an oyster bar. It specialises in game and owns the Lartington Estate in the High Pennines. The restaurant stayed in the Rule family un...

Place, Food & Drink

1 memorial
Spratt's

Spratt's

Canine food specialists and operators of the "largest dog biscuit factory in the world" in Fawe Street, Poplar. Started by an American entrepreneur James Spratt, who introduced the biscuit to Lond...

Group, Commerce, Animals, Food & Drink, USA

1 memorial

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Shepherd's Well

Shepherd's Well

NW3, Akenside Road

On the ground is a ghost footprint of what could have been one of these water-fountains we remember from the 1950s, found in parks near c...

1 subject commemorated
H. Arscott

H. Arscott

Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Sapper Henry Arscott was born on 31 March 1881 in Hampstead, the younger son of William and Frances Arscott. His father was a house painter. The 1881...

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church - 2 Fleming

Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church - 2 Fleming

N5, Highbury Quadrant

The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...

1 subject commemorated
E. Berwick
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Geoffrey Dearmer and Margaret

Geoffrey Dearmer and Margaret

NW3, Elsworthy Road, St Mary's, Primrose Hill

In our photo, looking left to right, the bench is in the small church garden hidden behind the car; the Dearmer plaque is on the wall beh...

2 subjects commemorated