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Tavistock Hotel
The Piazza, Covent Garden

(1801 - 1877)
The Tavistock Coffee House & Public Breakfast Room was situated in the
Piazza, Covent Garden in premises which formerly housed Cox's Auction
Rooms and before that by a Mr Langford. It was described as "a good house
much frequented by theatrical and other gentlemen" and was next door to
Old Hummums another early coffee house. From 1809 to 1877 and possibly
later it was variously described as a coffee-house, hotel, hotel & public
breakfast room and hotel & coffee-house. In 1833 a New Tavistock Hotel &
Coffee House is listed at 19, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden. Lillywhite
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A part letter addressed to W. H. Moss Esq (of Hull) posted in Castleford,
evidenced by a black UDC, on 25th December 1844 to the Tavistock Hotel
which passed through Pontefract arriving in London the next day. The letter
was pre-paid and was charged at 1d. It concerns the shipment of coal.