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The Jamaica Wine House, known locally as "the Jampot", is located in St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, in the heart of London's financial district. It was the first coffee house in London and was visited by the English diarist Samuel Pepys in 1660. [1] It is now a Grade II listed public house [2] and is set within a labyrinth of medieval courts and ...
The original premises of the coffee-house was destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire of London. On its location is a late nineteenth-century building housing—in the twenty-first century—a pub, the Jamaica Wine House; a commemorative plaque is now on the spot, unveiled in 1952—the tercentenary of the founding of Rosée's shop.
At the International Exhibition held in London in 1862, J. Wray and Nephew won three gold medals for its 10-, 15- and 25-year-old rums. The company's rums also won several awards and prizes at international exhibitions in Paris—1878, Amsterdam—1883, New Orleans—1885 and Jamaica 1891. In 1916, Lindo Brothers & Co purchased Wray & Nephew.
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Jack Straw's Castle is a Grade II listed building [1] and former public house on North End Way, Hampstead, north-west London, England close to the junction with Heath Street and Spaniards Road. The site is named after the rebel leader Jack Straw , who led the Peasants' Revolt in 1381 and who is said to have taken refuge on the site until he was ...
The Black Friar is a Grade II* listed [1] public house on Queen Victoria Street in Blackfriars, London. [2] It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former medieval Dominican friary, [3] and then remodelled in about 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark. Much of the internal decoration was done by the sculptors Frederick T. Callcott ...
From the history of wines to obscure factoids like why a rare Trockene Schmitts vintage is in a bottle shaped like a pig’s bladder, to art exhibitions, and weekend live music, the Wine House is ...
His house and warehouse shop became so filthy that he became a celebrity of dirt. Any letter addressed to "The dirty Warehouse, London" was delivered to him. He stopped trading in 1804. He died at Haddington about 1809, and was buried in Aubourn parish church. The warehouse was later demolished. [6]