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Garraway's Coffee House

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However, because it served merchants directly engaged in the tea trade, Garraways "coffee house" in Exchange Alley, in London, is generally thought to be the first to have replaced coffee with tea. Garraways later served as the locale of several stories by Charles Dickens, who was among the first to
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from the period when such houses served as important places where other business was performed. Its original proprietor, Thomas Garway, was already said to be the first person in England to sell tea prior to the house's founding, and when he began to sell it here in 1657 it became the first place in
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describe these houses as places where upwardly middle-class merchants and stockbrokers with limited means could meet to pool their skills and financial resources.
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Different kinds of merchants patronised different coffee houses, with tea merchants patronising Garraway's, as well as many investors in the
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and drinking room, it being said that the sandwich-maker spent two hours preparing each day's food.
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In 1671 the Hudson's Bay Company sold its first furs at Garraway's Coffee House.
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wrote of it being frequented by wealthy traders from the City.
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conducted its first sale of furs at the coffee house in 1671.
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Map of coffee houses in Exchange Alley, prior to the 1748 fire
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Former buildings and structures in the City of London
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Garraway's Coffee House shortly before its demolition
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London coffee house
Exchange Alley
Hudson's Bay Company
South Sea Bubble
sandwich
Charles Dickens
Daniel Defoe

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Coffee portal
"The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse"
The Public Domain Review



All About Coffee
cite book
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"Chinese Tea in World History"
Education About Asia
"Cornhill, Gracechurch Street, and Fenchurch Street | British History Online"
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Coffeehouses and cafés in London
Former buildings and structures in the City of London

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