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Swadlincote is a town in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England.It contains 24 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, two are at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
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."
The population is around 7,300 (2001) A similar number for Midway and about a thousand less for Swadlincote. St John's Anglican Church is just off High Street. Stanton Methodist Church is on Park Road at the junction of the A444. St Peter's and St Paul’s Catholic Church is just inside the Swadlincote parish.
The oldest church in St. John's, St. Thomas' Anglican Church, was built in 1835-36 for the British Garrison at St. John's. The church is an example of early gothic revival architecture, a style which would be seen later in larger churches like St. Patricks and the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
The Aerated Bread Company Ltd (A.B.C.) was a British company founded and headquartered in London.Although it is often remembered as running a large chain of tea rooms in Britain and other parts of the world, it was originally established in 1862 by John Dauglish as a bakery using a revolutionary new method he had developed, with the tea rooms starting in 1864.
Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, the daughter of Alexander Henry Paterson, a medical doctor, and Mary Herford Paterson. Helen was the eldest of seven children.
When the guest returned to the room, the seal was lying on the floor. The guest called the hotel — and they asked the Sea Animal Rescue Team, an animal welfare organization to help remove the seal.
The Elephant Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. [1] The building was constructed from 1872 to 1877 by Henry Hopper to a design by architect Frank Caws for William Grimshaw, a local tea merchant and grocer, [ 2 ] in a blend of the high Victorian Hindu Gothic and Venetian Gothic styles.