London Tea Auction
The London Tea Auction was a candle auction held on a regular basis for over 300 years, from 1679 until 29 June 1998. The auction in London turned the city into an international hub for the tea industry. The East India Company held the first auction in Leadenhall Street. In 1834, after the East India Company went out of business, the auction was held on Mincing Lane.
To the uninitiated a Tea sale appears to be a mere arena in which the comparative strength of the lungs of a portion of his Majesty´s subjects are to be tried. No one could for an instant suspect the real nature of the business for which the assemblage was congregated...
External links
[edit]- eBook: Denys Forrest, Tea for the British (London, 1973).
- eBook: Anonymous ('A Tea Dealer') Tsiology; A discourse on tea &c &c
- Business: The Economy - Storm in a teacup
- London tea auction abandoned - The candle that was lit in 1750 will be extinguished in June 1998
- Britain's great tea ceremony ends after 300 years
- Audio: Tea Auction 1936
- 'By the Candle'
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