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The Willow Tearooms are tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland, designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, which opened for business in October 1903. They quickly gained enormous popularity, and are the most famous of the many Glasgow tearooms that opened in the late 19th and early 20th century.
A teahouse is an establishment which primarily serves tea and other light refreshments. Sometimes the meal is also called "tea" . Although its function varies widely depending on the culture, teahouses often serve as centers of social interaction , like coffeehouses .
Tea rooms opened around the city, and in the late 1880s fine hotels elsewhere in Britain and in America began to offer tea service in tea rooms and tea courts. [11] Glasgow in 1901 reported that "Glasgow, in truth, is a very Tokio for tea-rooms. Nowhere can one have so much for so little, and nowhere are such places more popular and frequented."
English afternoon tea (or simply afternoon tea) is a British tradition that involves enjoying a light meal of tea, sandwiches, scones, and cakes in the mid-afternoon, typically between 3:30 and 5 pm. It originated in the 1840s as a way for the upper class to bridge the gap between lunch and a late dinner.
Western façade of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art.. The city is notable for architecture designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). Mackintosh was an architect and designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom, designing Glasgow buildings such as the Glasgow School of Art, Willow Tearooms and the Scotland Street ...
The award-winning project was promoted by Glasgow City Council, the lead developer being Bett Homes (later Avant Homes) [28] with involvement from the Link and Glasgow Housing Associations, the local housing stock of the latter now being owned and managed by the New Gorbals Housing Association. By September 2007, part of the traffic by-pass ...
"The general business of merchant and agent was well understood by the firm, but the development and management of tea estates was something entirely new." John Finlay & Co was to act for the tea companies in Glasgow and the joint partnership of Finlay Muir & Co, in Calcutta as agents in India. [1] Finlay's operations were extensive.
Hillhead (Scots: Hullheid, Scottish Gaelic: Ceann a' Chnuic) [3] is an area of Glasgow, Scotland.Situated north of Kelvingrove Park and to the south of the River Kelvin, Hillhead is at the heart of Glasgow's fashionable West End, with Byres Road forming the western border of the area, the other boundaries being Dumbarton Road to the south and the River Kelvin to the east and north.