Lloyd's Coffee House

[1][2] The establishment was a popular place for sailors, merchants and shipowners, and Lloyd catered to them by providing reliable shipping news.

[6] A blue plaque in Lombard Street commemorates the coffee house's second location (now occupied at ground level by Sainsbury's supermarket).

Lloyd's coffee house was a popular establishment for English citizens that engaged in the Atlantic Slave Trade.

The London Gazette hosted many advertisements about runaway slaves listing Lloyd's coffee house as the location to return them.

[8] Market participation in the transatlantic slave trade was the source of the profits that are the foundation to the capital used in the creation of further Lloyd's organizations.