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Description: | J. Lyons and Co. was a company set up in 1887 whose primary business was running tea shops and so-called ?Corner Houses? aimed at the middle classes. The first tea shop opened in 1894 and the company flourished for much of the 20th Century, with the tea shops being particularly popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The company was hurt by the economic troubles of the 1970s and slipped out of view soon afterwards and was broken up and sold. This photograph shows female workers in the company?s factory in Greenford, Ealing, making chocolates. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | London and Middlesex Archaeological Society | Subjects: | work | Temporal: | c1920 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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