Picture No | 12548380 |
Date | 1906 |
Description | The Biggest Banquet Scotland Ever Saw |
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Diagrammatic drawing giving an impression of the huge quantities of food and drink transported from London by the firm J. Lyons to Aberdeen to cater for a great banquet given by Lord Strathcona to 2,500 guests. As well as the food, 750 waiters, chefs, porters and cloak-room attendants were conveyed up to London by two special trains.
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Source | Unattributed illustration in 'The Sphere', 29 September 1906, page 269 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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