Brothers Walt and Adolph Schoch
featured huge crystal chandeliers and the atmosphere
seventy-one years and one day after the inaugural
muted colours
a famous entertainer and illustrator of the period
J Lyons Popular State Cafe, Manchester, New Year's Eve 1920 Sizes:A1 (594x840mm) Archival Print (Unframed) Brothers Walt and Adolph SchochJ. Lyons & Co. was a British restaurant chain, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in 1884. In 1894 the company started a teashop in Piccadilly, London, and from 1909 developed this into a chain of teashops known as Lyons' Corner Houses. The company also ran high class restaurants, founding the Trocadero in 1895, and hotels including the Strand Palace, opened in 1909, the Regent Palace, opened in 1915, and the Cumberland Hotel, opened