Showing posts with label straw hat cleaner. Show all posts
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Thursday, 22 November 2012

Tonbridge Daily Snippet

Tonbridge Pharmacist Harry Beckett's homemade recipe for a straw hat cleaner was in great demand around the 1900's. Locals could buy the homemade concoction from the Quarry Hill Pharmacy.  It required a single application to dry thoroughly and then the use of a warm iron as a finishing touch.