The Tea Rooms in London

In 1942, Britain bought up the world's entire supply of black tea. It was largely for the North Africa desert campaigns because all their water was transported in fuel containers so it tasted like oil. But yeah, they bought up all the tea pretty much available. The suffragette movement, tea was very important in that. There was one in particular on Oxford Street called Allen's Tea Rooms where a lot of the early suffragette plans got made. And this was run by a guy called Alan Liddell. He was actually a pseudonym for the person who actually run it who was called Marguerite Liddell and her middle name was Alan. So she called it Alan's Tea