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The Tower Hotel is a large hotel situated on the north bank of the River Thames, on the east side of Tower Bridge, in London.. The hotel was designed by the Renton Howard Wood Partnership, constructed by Taylor Woodrow for owners J. Lyons & Co., and opened in September 1973 by the Constable of the Tower of London, Sir Richard Hull. [1]
Interior of the museum (October 2007). The Bramah Tea and Coffee Museum was a museum in southeast London. [1] [2] It was the world's first museum devoted to the history of tea and coffee, [citation needed] covering 400 years of commercial and social history of two commodities, since their arrival in Europe from Africa and the Far East.
It is the tallest all-hotel building in the United Kingdom and the tallest Novotel in the world. [2] [3] [4] Construction began in July 2014, costing an estimated £60 million. [5] Planning permission was granted for the hotel in November 2010 by Tower Hamlets Council. It replaces an office building of six-storeys and 43,768 sq ft which was ...
Lloyd's Coffee House was a significant meeting place in London in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was opened by Edward Lloyd (c. 1648 – 15 February 1713) on Tower Street in 1686. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The establishment was a popular place for sailors , merchants and shipowners , and Lloyd catered to them by providing reliable shipping news.
Monmouth Coffee Company is a coffee roaster, retailer and wholesaler in London, which was founded in 1978. It played an important role in regenerating Neal's Yard and Borough Market . It has remained focused on roasting and selling coffee beans and was one of the foundations for the third wave of coffee in London after the year 2000.
In 1698, it was used by John Castaing to post the prices of stocks and commodities, the first evidence of systematic exchange of securities in London. That year, dealers expelled from the Royal Exchange for rowdiness migrated to Jonathan's (as well as to Garraway's Coffee-House). It was the scene of a number of critical events in the history of ...
The Guoman Tower Hotel [6] (formerly Thistle) near Tower Bridge is one of the largest hotels in London, with over 800 bedrooms, and is regarded by some as one of the ugliest - it was twice voted the second ugliest building in London, in a 2005 Time Out poll, and in a 2006 BBC poll [7] - and most insensitively located brutalist buildings in the ...
In 1868 the business was acquired by the newly created Liverpool China and India Tea Company, [3] and a series of brand names was created beginning with Mikado. The Kardomah brand of tea was first served at the Liverpool colonial exhibition of 1887, [4] and the brand was later applied to a range of teas, coffees and coffee houses. The parent ...