We started roasting and retailing coffee in 1978. At the beginning we roasted in the basement of our shop on Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, using rather old-fashioned direct-flame machines, first a small UNO and then a 1930s Whitmee.
Almost thirty years later in 2007, having opened another shop in Borough Market and outgrown our basement in Covent Garden, we moved into three converted railway arches in Bermondsey. And ten years later, we moved our roasting site again, just a little further east to Spa Terminus in Bermondsey where we converted five arches into a roasting, tasting and office space. In the Spa Terminus roastery we installed two roasters from Loring in California, USA. We more recently opened our third shop on Dockley Road, just around the corner from our roastery.