J. Lyons & Co, Piccadilly Hotel, Paris 1889 West End before air-conditioning and foreign travel

before air-conditioning and foreign travel was the norm

The Clash's Joe Strummer would have solo Sunday lunches there

was hailed as a gentle and honourable man who was a pioneer in the civil rights movement

A new Birdland jazz club opened in 1986 and is now at 315 West 44th Street

J. Lyons & Co, Piccadilly Hotel, Paris 1889 West End before air-conditioning and foreign travelLyons was famous for its tea shops, which were a major British institution well into the second half of the Twentieth Century. But before the first tea shop opened, in 1894 in Piccadilly, Joseph Lyons and his partners had trialled their catering operation elsewhere, first in Newcastle in 1887, and then in Glasgow in 1888. This menu cover dates from 1889, the year of an Exposition Universelle or Worlds Fair in Paris, which brought the city the Eiffel