the King's Coffee House and Gaskell Memorial Tower, is located in the centre of the town, and his series of more eccentric houses stretch along Legh Road, to the southeast of the town.
United States House of Representatives | White House | House of Lords | House of Representatives | Stephen King | House | House of Commons of the United Kingdom | King's College London | King Arthur | King | Royal Opera House | Massachusetts House of Representatives | Tower of London | Florida House of Representatives | Nat King Cole | Burger King | Eiffel Tower | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | B.B. King | The Lion King | Sydney Opera House | Australian House of Representatives | King Lear | Random House | Martin Luther King, Jr. | House (TV series) | King Edward VII | King Crimson | House of Habsburg | Minnesota House of Representatives |
As the owner of Freeth's Coffee House between 1768 and his death in 1808, he was major figure in the political and cultural life of Birmingham during the Midlands Enlightenment.
It was a favourite haunt of Edward Thurlow, who became Lord Chancellor, and was satirised as being enamoured of the attractive landlady's daughter.
Fielding mentions it in both The Covent Garden Tragedy and Pasquin and Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Roderick Random.
•
The shacks can be seen in many of the contemporary depictions of the piazza and features prominently in William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day (although it is rotated from its true position for the artistic effect of contrasting it with Inigo Jones' Church of St Paul).
•
Tom King was born in 1694 to Thomas King, a squire from Thurlow, Essex, and Elizabeth Cordell, the daughter of Baronet Sir John Cordell.