| Show Ba Bakers Baker's ers Famous London Chop House Closed After Years' Years r. r LONDO LONDON Jan lv After I.-After After an ex existence ex- ex of ot more than two hundred years Bakers Baker's famous fl chop house in Change alley altey Lombard st street et Is closed and like the sites lUes of or many other of the old coffee cottee houses In the tr triangle angl B composed of Lombard street Cornhill and street may maybe maybe maybe be yielding place to banking and in insurance tn- tn urance necessities Nobody seems to know exactly When Bakers Baker's came Into being but thore is reason to tG suppose that it w WAS WiS na built soon after atter the great fire of ot 1666 It is a tradition that the original Baker was wae formerly the head headman headman headman man at Lloyds Lloyd's coffee house near by At any any rate his Dusin business es had at attained at- at tamed tl a a. firm foothold early earl earlin in the eighteenth century and sales ales such as were vere customary In coffee houses In those days were frequently advertised adver Used to be bo ht held ld at Bakers Baker Change alley It may be b e recalled was at one period a centre of great gnat speculative activity and when the South Se Se ea Bubble was at Its Us height Bakers Baker's was thronged by punters of all degrees It Is the distinction of this famous coffee house that within its walls the London Missionary society was conceived con con- There met at Bakers Baker's in November 1 1 K a It number of emi eminent emt- emt nent nonconformist ministers and Itis it itIs itis is recorded that they the united in prayer and amI deliberation on behalf of millions of their race suffering from sin and debased by idolatry The upshot vas Avas as th the formation o of ot one of nf the greatest and most successful of British oversea missionary enter enter- prices Probably ly it is 18 a century and a half a-half halt half since an any of ot the Baker family tamil was proprietor of the chop house houe as it came to be called In later latr years e rR but I successive owners steadfastly adhered adhered ad nd- I hered here 1 to the traditions of the places place taking pride in its old fashioned but by no no means mans uncomfortable a le Interior I and its reputation for honest English fare tare served by honest English Inglish w wait wait- lt- lt era ers Tho The ground floor with I Its s high partitions partition'S is mainly consecrated to the succulent chop or steak On the floor above e is the dining room oom where a Joint dinner has always always- been the distinctive feature A A. juicy sirloin piping hot from the kitchen is 1 brought into the middle of the room and speedily c. c carved A leg leg- of mutton mutton mutton mut mut- ton equally hot presently presently- takes its place and shares the same saIp fate ate A succession of ot single single- joints marks the busy hours of the da day Bakers Baker's has lIas alwa always s 's b been faithful to the willow pattern plate and and to pewter and it Unobtrusively boasts a number of ot interesting relics of former days In one of the walls Isa is isa isa a picture of ot James a famous famous' waiter walter possibly the waiter walter whose characteristics characteristics charac charac- John L. L Toole is said to have gone to Change alley to stud study James was at Bakers Baker's for thirty five years a length of service und understood to be equalled b by at least one of the theold theold old hands hand's toda today I |
