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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.
Source Photograph by Benjamin Stone in 'Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures', page 28
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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