A London entrepreneur is drawing up plans to safeguard an internationally renowned collection that pays homage to the tea trade, following the death of the man who assembled it.

The artefacts, brought together by Edward Bramah over a career in the industry spanning more than 50 years, have been housed in the Bramah Museum of Tea & Coffee in London’s Southwark since 1992. After struggling financially for years, however, the museum – with its associated tea shop – is facing closure in its current form.