Lloyds Coffee House (1960)

Lloyd s Coffee House was a coffee shop in London originally on Tower Street in around 1688. The coffehouse was a popular place for sailors, merchants and shipowners. While drinking coffee they got the news on shipping and goods from Mr. Lloyd. Various M, Ss of exteriors of modern buildings in London; Castrol building in Marylebone Road; an unidentified one, possibly in Berners Street, with an interesting corrugated canopy above it; Sanderson building in Berners Street all are somewhat characterless as the commentator says. M, Ss of the Lloyd s of London building in the City; it looks fairly modern, not sure when it was built, but it does have much more character than the flat glassfronted buildings we saw previously. M, S of a recreation of Lloyd s Coffee House in London as it looked when it opened in 1688; a man carries in a sack of coffee beans; another sweeps the paving stones outside; two gentlemen approach the entrance and go in all are wearing 1680s costume; the two gents wear curly wigs and tr