In the 1850s, along Idol Lane near Great Tower Street in the City of London, a tea wholesaler named James Ashby began his trade. The location was no accident. Just steps from the Thames, surrounded by wharves and warehouses where ships from India, Ceylon, and China unloaded their cargo, this was the beating heart of the British tea trade.
By 1893, the firm of James Ashby & Sons was recorded in Illustrated London and its Representatives of Commerce as “one of the leading concerns in the London wholesale tea trade.” Their branded teas — including the Rose Brand Fine Teas and Embassy Tea & Coffee — left marks that can still be read today on the ghostsigns of Union Street in Southwark.
That name is now ASHBYS OF LONDON. The blending is carried out in England by Keith Spicer Ltd., a specialist tea house founded in 1934 in Bournemouth, whose craft has been refined over nine decades. In Japan, ASHBYS is imported, finished, and brought to your cup by SARATNA INC. — led by a tea taster and tea blender who has walked the gardens of Sri Lanka, India, and beyond.
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