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- ↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher; Keay, Julia; Keay, John (2008). "Gunter's Tea Shop". The London Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 365. ISBN 9781405049245.
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