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Discovering Food & Drink at West Norwood Cemetery

Part of the Lambeth Heritage Festival 2024.

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’.

When: Saturday 7 September 2024 at 11am

Where: West Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, West Norwood, London SE27 9JU

Further details: Friends of West Norwood Cemetery Eventbrite.

 

event date: 

Saturday, September 7, 2024