1798 Law mandating a seasonal closure of the oyster beds is enacted
a famous entertainer and illustrator of the period
seventy-one years and one day after the inaugural
Brothers Walt and Adolph Schoch
J Lyons Popular State Cafe, Manchester, New Year's Eve 1920 Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) 1798 Law mandating a seasonalJ. Lyons & Co. was a British restaurant chain, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in 1884. In 1894 the company started a teashop in Piccadilly, London, and from 1909 developed this into a chain of teashops known as Lyons' Corner Houses. The company also ran high class restaurants, founding the Trocadero in 1895, and hotels including the Strand Palace, opened in 1909, the Regent Palace, opened in 1915, and the Cumberland Hotel, opened