Picture No | 10062377 |
Date | circa 1900 |
Description | Biddenden Maids Charity 1900s |
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'Famous cakes', Biddenden, a quaint and secluded Kentish village is thoroughly aroused from its normal torpor on Easter Sunday, for people from all parts of the countryside as well as many from London flock thither on the chance of obtaining one of the famous Biddenden cakes which were distributed on the great feast ever since the beginning of the twelfth century.
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Source | Photograph by Benjamin Stone in 'Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures', page 28 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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