Tea in London

Some years ago I watched a tv show on the late Travel Channel about things to do in London and I remember one episode where the host had tea at a house that the lady owner (a regular housewife) had prepared and served. He explained that there were houses of individuals who offer the traditional English tea to foreign visitors, including all the treats that the "ceremony" requires, as it was done in the past, when people lived unworried and spent time to enjoy it.

Does anyone know places in London where this is done? Remember: NOT commercial shops/restaurants/tea houses/hotels but homes of common people where tea is served by the owner (of course visitors have to pay, it is not a free invitation).

Have you ever heard of this? How can I find/contact them?

Thank you

Ricardo
Santa Fe, Argentina

I have posted this question in other forums... and people call me crazy because nobody ever heard of it. Even old Londoners answer that never knew about something like this and send me to the Ritz instead. Of course I would like to do it, but I refuse to pay 100 dollars for a simple cup of tea and a scone.

Ron: do you mean the Mayor of the city himself???? Do you think he will read (and answer) such a question? I really dare not write to him, they will think it's a joke!!!

Thank you anyway

Ricardo

Had Recardo asked this but a few years ago, he'd been more than welcome to visit our former Edwardian home in the London suburbs where my Mum in law served tea every afternoon, as she wheeled in her various Edwardian and Victorian items of tea service into the Victorian furnished drawing room. Not only would he have been seemingly transported back some 100 years by a very traditional North Yorkshire lady, it wouldn't have cost Recardo a penny. I had no idea there were people that would charge for this type of thing.