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Tu Hwnt i’r Bont, Llanrwst | by Lisa Fotios

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18th April 1934 saw the death of Glasgow businesswoman Kate Cranston.

Catherine, or Kate, Cranston was the daughter of George Cranston, a Glasgow baker baker and pastry maker who, in 1849, the year of her birth, diversified into running a hotel. Originally the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Hotel, this became the Royal Horse Hotel and, in 1852, “Cranston’s Hotel and Dining Rooms”.

Kate’s older brother, Stuart, became a tea dealer at a time when Glesga had a strong temperance movement and tea, until the 1830s a luxury for the rich, was increasingly being seen as an alternative to alcohol for the working classes. Stuart pioneered the idea of tea rooms in which his tea could be drunk in simple surroundings. Although Kate was not the first in the family to enter the business, when she established the Crown Luncheon Room on Argyle Street in 1878 she took the tea room to another level, placing great emphasis on the quality of the design and decor, on cleanliness, and on quality and choice of food.

n 1892 Kate married John Cochrane, but continued to trade as Miss Cranston’s Tearooms. She had opened her second tea room, in Ingram Street. She added a further tea room in Buchanan Street in 1897, and completed her chain with the Willow Tea Rooms in Sauchiehall Street, which opened in 1903. Miss Cranston’s Tearooms became the thriving centres of Glasgow’s society.

Kate Cranston always saw good design as central to her success. In 1888 she commissioned interior designer George Walton to design an Arts and Crafts styled extension for it the Ingram Street premises. Then, in 1900, she asked Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald to design a room, also at Ingram Street. She must have been impressed with the result, because she entrusted the pair with all aspects of the design of the Willow Tea Rooms. The results were a sensation at the time, and remain so today, such is the enduring quality of excellent design.

Kate Cranston pursued a number of other projects over the following years, sometimes calling on the design skills of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. When he husband died in 1917 she sold her tea rooms and other business interests, and withdrew from public life. She had no children and after her death in 1934 it emerged that she had left two thirds of her estate to the poor of Glasgow.

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Pressing pause often allows a sense of clarity that isn't available when you're stuck in the weeds, so savor it.

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The Copper Bowl by StreetsofWashington Via Flickr: The Copper Bowl, at 520 12th Street NW, opened for business around 1918. The following year, it claimed in an advertisement that “Afternoon tea at the Copper Bowl is becoming institutional in the habits of Washingtonians who appreciate delicacies of food service—in a restful environment—on toward the end of the day." As an added attraction, the Copper Bowl featured a tea reader who would tell customers’ fortunes based on the tealeaves in their cups. Known for its fresh-baked pastries, the Copper Bowl moved in the 1940s to the Alban Towers apartment house at 3700 Massachusetts Avenue NW in Cathedral Heights.

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Finally got around to visiting Prince Tea House’s Flushing location the other day after a friend’s birthday celebration. It’s a cute tea house with a homey decor with the right touch of elegant quirkiness that we were digging. While most of my party got beverages I settled for the dessert trio which included the fruit tart, the vanilla ice cream choux pastry and the cranberry creme brulee, all of which were pretty scrumptious though I was especially digging the delicate cranberry creme brulee. I definitely wanna wanna try the purple yam souffle or one of their mille crepe cakes the next time I’m in the area though.

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