CHEESE
See Also: DEVELOPMENTS Canary Wharf, Cheese; FOOD; FOOD MARKETS, FORMER; M.I.5 Crowson & Sons; PUBS Ye Olde
Cheshire Cheese
Chiswick
Chiswick s
name is derived from the Old English Ceswican, which meant cheese farm.
Location:
Chiswick High Road, W4 1SZ
Eighteenth-Century Cheese
In the
18thC cheese was a seasonal product.
It was made with excess milk during the summer.
Suffolk
cheese was the standard Navy fare until 1758.
It kept well but was almost inedible.
In 1758 the service switched to Gloucester and Cheshire. These were more much expensive and perished
more easily.
In the
18thC Cheshire, Lancashire and Warwickshire accounted for over half
of London's cheese. The first two
varieties arrived by sea.
Jeroboams
Jeroboams
operates a chain of fromageries that also sell wines and spirits. The first one was opened in South
Kensington. The business moved to
Holland Park Avenue.
In 2003
Jeroboams took over the Mr Christian's Delicatessen in Notting Hill. The following year it acquired the business
that owned the whisky retailer Milroys of Soho.
In 2008
there were eight Jeroboam branded outlets.
Location:
96 Holland Park Avenue, W11 3RB (purple, pink)
Website:
https://jeroboams.co.uk
La Fromagerie
La
Fromagerie is a fromagerie. The business
was founded in Highbury in 1992 by the husband and wife Danny (d.2020) and
Patricia Michelson.
Location:
2-6 Moxon Street, W1U 4EW (orange, purple)
Website:
www.lafromagerie.co.uk
The Ministry of Food
During
the Second World War the Ministry of Food restricted British cheese production
to six hard cheeses. Following the securing
of peace, it took time for soft cheese production to revive. Cheesemakers looked to overseas producers for
information about techniques. When
seeking to use these the Britons sometimes made mistakes, some of which led to
the creation of new varieties of cheese.
Location:
Montagu House, Whitehall, SW1A 2EU.
Demolished. (purple, grey)
Neal's Yard Dairy
Neal s
Yard Dairy played a prominent role in reviving interest in British-made soft
cheeses.
Location:
17 Short's Gardens, WC2H 9UP (grey, red)
See
Also: DISTRICT CHANGE Covent Garden, Neal's Yard
Website:
www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk
Paxton & Whitfield
The
cheese shop Paxton & Whitfield can trace its antecedents back to a business
that was established in the early 1700s in Clare Market, near the Aldwych. The business's founder was one Sam Cullum,
the son of a Suffolk swordmaker ( Cullum disappeared from the business's name
in 1797). The company has been in its
present premises since the late 1860s.
Location:
93 Jermyn Street, SW1Y 6JE (red, purple)
Website:
www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk
Samuel Pepys
In
1666, during the Great Fire of London, the diarist Samuel Pepys was careful to
bury a parmesan cheese that he owned in his garden in case his house was burned
down.1
Location:
Hart Street, EC3R 7NB (blue, lime green)
See
Also: THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON; ROYAL STATUES King Charles I Charing Cross
1. As matters turned out, Pepys's home was one of the minority of
properties in London that survived the Fire intact.
David
Backhouse 2024