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Date and time:
to
Cost:
Free
Neighbourhood:
Lambeth wide
Category:
- Lambeth Heritage Festival
Meet at the War Memorial inside the cemetery main gate, Norwood Road SE27 9JY
Join Andrea Woodside to discover the fascinating histories of Victorian food and drink production. Highlights include Mrs Beeton, whose Book of Household Management offered housewives weekly menu planners, sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, Eliza James (the ‘Watercress Queen’), the inventors of Bovril and Custard Creams, James Epps’s Homeopathic Cocoa, not to mention a best-selling toothpaste described as ‘delicious as sherry’.
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