Friborg and Treyer were fashionable snuff sellers in the 18th century. Based at 34 Haymarket their clientele included King George IV, the actor David Garrick and all-round dandy Beau Brummell. The Fribourg’s had originally come to England from Switzerland and the claim is that the firm was started in 1720 by P. Fribourg, although the… Continue reading The Strange Tale of Mr Fribourg and Mr Treyer …….. and Mr Fribourg and Mr Pontet
Author: endean0
Hi, I'm Steve, a London tour guide and owner of A London Miscellany Tours, a guided walking tour company who specialise in small number tours of the greatest city in the world!
Thursday Doors
Wordless Wednesday
Silent Sunday
Waiting
One Word Sunday
Just watchin’ the world go by
Six Word Saturday
Musca domestica Linnaeus
A few weeks ago I was musing on the rat infestation around the Strand in 1903. Well that seemed bad enough, but I found an incident some two hundred years earlier which really made my skin crawl. During July 1707, the 8th of July to be exact, there was if records are to be believed… Continue reading Musca domestica Linnaeus
Wordless Wednesday
Silent Sunday
Wandering around the Wandle
Earlier this week I found myself in Wandsworth (I really am turning into a South Londonophile!). I was researching a tour I’m putting together that takes in a stretch of the Thames Path between Putney and Battersea Pleasure Gardens. I was particularly keen to take a look at one of London’s rivers, the Wandle. Although… Continue reading Wandering around the Wandle
A LONDON MISCELLANY 