September 12, 2005
Lyons & Co., an Electronic History
- a very British institution that sadly fell to the recession in the late 70's. I came to the UK in '78 as a wee nipper and caught the last of this company - it seemed the name was everywhere in quiet little village shops, tea shops in the towns, on tv, and on posters thru' London. Lyons even had the first business computer evar! Lyons Maid! Lyons Tea! Then it was gone.
Why can't we have such elegance and simplicity today? I used to love those tea shops. The 21st Century seems so brutal and colourless.
Damn you ... You blew it up! God damn you all to hell!!
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Chy, the girl in the uppermost picture looks like she stepped out of the 1920s. And sugarmilktea, I think your picture's making my cursor jitter and jump.
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She did step out of the 1920s, bees! And my cursor is flickering too. :) It's our crappy CPUs old chap.
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Just trying to share my appreciation for the post (in the feel of the post itself), but didn't intend to make yer cursor do the jitterbug...
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Lyons even had the first business computer evar! Then it was gone. Coincidence?
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You know what? This is about the sanest thead posted today.
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Not only that, but it evokes memories of Lyons Maid ice cream that had real milk products in it. My mother used to work in the Lyons tea house opposite Charing Cross station. She remembered it fondly, years after it closed down.
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That audience is head-banging.
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You know what? This is about the sanest thead posted today. But it's also really short, so that sorta saved it from irretrievable madness. I think.
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The tea shop opposite Charing Cross.. what year did that close down? Anyway, it was still a cafe at the time I left London some years back. That's actually one of my favorite areas in the city. I used to loaf about down there quite a lot.