{"id":1160,"date":"2021-12-09T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2021-12-09T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:09:37","slug":"bovril-factory-old-street-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/bovril-factory-old-street-london\/","title":{"rendered":"BOVRIL FACTORY &#8211; OLD STREET, LONDON"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"324\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2020-10-02-12.01.10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2020-10-02-12.01.10.png 324w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-2020-10-02-12.01.10-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what my dad wrote about my Grandma&#8217;s work at Bovrils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;My mum left school at 14 years old, and went to work as a cook in the staff canteen at Bovril&#8217;s factory and offices in Old Street. The factory was opposite to Henry Street, where she lived. Everyone said my Mum was a great cook. My children used to love going to her house on a Saturday, as she made a superb tea of egg, bacon, beans and chips. Kevin, my son, tells me he has never tasted better fried eggs, and he hated going to her house on a Sunday as Sunday was the day for cucumber Sandwiches rather than a fry up.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I looked up the factory and discovered that the Bovril factory was set up in 1889 to produce a meat extract from beef. The name came from Bo (bovinus \u2013 ox in Latin), and the suffix &#8216;vril&#8217; came from an early science fiction novel by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton\">Edward Bulwer-Lytton<\/a>&#8216; called the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Coming_Race\"><em>The Coming Race<\/em><\/a> (1870), in which a superior race of the Vril-ya, gain their powers from an electromagnetic substance named &#8220;Vril&#8221;. 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