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Friends of West Norwood Cemetery: Discovering Food and Drink guided walk

11am - 12.30pm
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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Advance booking is by donation (minimum £1 + 2% EVB fee) and essential due to limited places, BOOK HERE
Please meet by the entrance archway in good time for a prompt start at 11.00am.

How to get here:
West Norwood Cemetery and Crematorium SE27 9JU is next to St Luke's Church and West Norwood Library
Buses: 2, 68, 196, 315, 322, 432 and 468 (several of these routes go via Brixton Tube Station: 2, 196, 322, 432). Robson Road stop
Train: West Norwood Station (trains to and from London Bridge/Victoria)

event date: 

Saturday, September 7, 2024