Founded as a family business by Walter Whittard in 1886, the origins of the business were as a specialist tea and coffee importer trading at 165 Fleet Street. Whittard was a City of London merchant, based from 1901 in Mincing Lane, and from 1904 in Mansell Street near Aldgate. The move to Chelsea came in 1940, after a direct hit on the Mansell Street premises during the Great Fire Raid of 29th December. Within a few years Walter Whittard had branched into coffee. He was selling coffee from well-established regions in South America and Indonesia, and also saw the last of the Ceylon coffee of the late 1890s. All Whittrads coffees are pure Arabica.
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