Museum of London will preserve hidden cocoa drinking rooms
The museum that will never sleep is to put a rediscovered temperance hub at its heart. A 19th-century cocoa room installed to lure workers away from breakfast bottles of ale has been found on the site of the new Museum of London at Smithfield meat market. The Lockhart Cocoa Room, complete with temperance meeting room on the first floor, will now be incorporated into an entrance to the £337 million complex. Paul Williams, whose practice Stanton Williams Architects has drawn up the plan for the site, said the rooms had been boarded up. “When the boards were taken away...
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