Garraway claimed to be the first to sell tea to the public, but not, as far as we can tell, at the Change Alley site, where he moved his coffee house after the Great Fire of 1666, replacing another coffee house. Garraways was lost again in another fire in 1748.
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Garraways Coffee House
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Garraway’s Coffee House, a place of great commercial transaction and frequent...
Garraways Coffee House
The grasshopper was Thomas Gresham's family symbol and appears on a number of...
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Friends of The Old Palace Croydon
A registered charity founded in the 1960s, with the twin aims of raising money for and organising tours of the old Croydon Palace.
1 memorial
Doctor Innes Pearse
Medical practitioner and biologist. Born Innes Hope Pearse in Purley, Surrey. She worked on thyroid research at the Royal Free Hospital, with George Scott Williamson who she later married. Together...
1 memorial
The Bourne Society
It takes its name from the streams that follow the lines of the A22 and A23 roads, and meet in Purley. Its objectives are to extend the knowledge of local history in Caterham, Purley and the surrou...
1 memorial
Tabard Inn
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in London and to provide accomodation to pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, in particular Chaucer's pilgrims, who set off...
1 memorial
Young Womens Christian Association
From their website: YWCA was founded in 1855 by Miss Emma Robarts and The Hon Mrs Arthur Kinnaird. Miss Robarts started organising groups for young women who were coming to London for the first ti...
1 memorial
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World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
St Mary Magdalene Richmond - war memorial
TW9, Church Walk
This free-standing monument is to the north of the church. From War Memorials Online: "A tall Gothic structure of Barnack ragstone, with ...
2 subjects commemorated
Estcourt J. Clack
Member of the Royal Academy (known as Jim), a noted sculptor, especially in wood. Other work: Yew wood carving of the figure of Christ the Redeemer in the Wells Cathedral (1955), Adam & Eve in ...
1 memorial
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