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Sussex Coffee House
18, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street

(1809 - 1838)
An earlier Sussex Coffee House was located in Fleet Street but only
operated from 1744 to 1755 following which there is no further trace of
it. The next mention of Sussex Coffee House, Bouverie Street (which was
being built at the end of the l 8th Century) is in 1809 at which time its
proprietor is Elizabeth Carter, possibly the same lady who appears in
1833 as the proprietor of Jack's Coffee House. It is also the premises of
the Sussex Tavern and Hotel whose proprietor is Joseph Croom. The
Waterloo Club based itself at the Coffee House between 1816 and 1820.
By 1826 only the sussex Hotel is listed and the following year it is styled
the Tun Tavern & Sussex Hotel - with Joseph Croom as proprietor who
was still there in the final mention in 1838 as the Sussex Hotel.

A letter written in Warminster, evidenced by a black mileage mark
(WL773) by John Thring on 22nd March 1813 addressed to J. Crowdy of
Highworth at the Sussex Coffee House, Bouverie Street, Fleet Street
where it arrived the next day confirming that he and his brother will agree
to meet Crowdy at the Duke's Arms in Marlborough on 28th March at 11
o' clock. The letter was charged at 8d.