Lloyd's Dairy - at the corner of River Street and Amwell Street, EC1
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Lloyd's Dairy - at the corner of River Street and Amwell Street, EC1
Image: © Stefan Czapski Taken: 17 Oct 2021
'Dairy Farmers', 'First Class Dairy Produce'. In one of George Sturt's memoirs of Surrey life in the mid-1800's, I read about Welsh drovers who led their herds through southern England at a certain time of year. Village schoolchildren (Sturt included) looked forward to this spectacle, and would stand on their chairs to watch the herds pass by. Many of the cattle were on their way to Channel ports. My own memory - from the days before supermarkets - is that small local dairies in London often had Welsh names. Where I lived there was a "Morgan's". Sturt's reminiscence left me wondering how often Welsh drovers settled down with a girl they'd met along the way. The name of the old dairy in EC1 is Lloyd's - a mere scrap of evidence for the theory I'm hinting at, but every little helps. As for Lloyd' s being 'Dairy Farmers', I believe that in London dairy cattle were kept in yards up until about 1900.
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51.528966
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