Tea LONDON

The British have long been recognized for their love of tea – a traditional obtained from the Chinese back in the sixteenth Century, when British industrialists exposed this most stimulating of drinks and begun to bring it to England, turning London into the tea capital of the west.

Tea London began the custom of the clippers: swift, square-rigged sailing vessels, which would chase each other round the Cape of Good Hope in an attempt to be initial to dock in London with the new harvest of tea from China . One such tea London clipper, The Cutty Sark, is conserved and is moored on the Thames at Greenwich , to the east of London . The oldest tea London mercantile in the world is Twining, who opened their tea London warehouse in London in 1706. at present they are still extremely a lot in business, still selling tea London and still run by the Twining family.

Fortnum and Mason opened just a year after Twinings, in the year 1707, and instantly ongoing to sell a extensive variety of first-class food -- as well as tea -- to the regal family and the local gentry. They as well shipped tea to Florence Nightingale, when she was tending in The Crimea. They are still going strong at present and, when you visit London , you have to visit "Fortnums", as they are recognized, and see the liveried shop associates. And, if you are looking for that special Christmas gift, Fortnum and Mason gift hampers, accessible in monogrammed wicker baskets are the essence of well food for the festive season. In the year 1834, Henry Charles Harrod started a comprehensive grocery, specializing in tea London , in Stepney in the east end of London . In the year 1849, he astutely stirred to the new-fangled neighborhood of Knightsbridge, then in the countryside west of London . This lay just south of the unique stately hunting region of Hyde Park , which was due to be the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851.

This rearrangement paid off generously for Harrods and his store grew and grew into the world well-known Harrods, currently occupying an imposing location in the same site as the new shop. They still sell tea London at present and a lot more besides. Actually their proud show off is they sell whatever thing you might desire. To strengthen this, their telegraphic address is: "Everything, London ".