Lloyd's 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 glass-fronted 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