pickering place, st.james, london

during the early c19 before being swallowed by the united states the vast republic of texas- which covered the area of 5 or 6 modern states - experimented with various forms of government, considering everything from monarchy to communitarian socialism. for a short period in the 1840s the ministers of their legation lived in the property of the wine merchants berry bros. and rudd, and this plaque in the passageway commemorates this fact.