Why this matters
Clement Cramp was a philanthropic businessman who built the Old Coffee Tavern as a temperance establishment around 1890 to provide a safe space with reading materials for working-class men.
What is recorded here
This green commemorative plaque records: Old Coffee Tavern Formerly a temperance coffee house with reading room Built c1890 by Clement Cramp (1816 - 1894) for working men Recorded plaque organisation: Cranbrook Heritage.
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