Isabel Pearce

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I.P.: Well, he was alive in the late nineteenth century, and he lived on until just before the Second World War, I think, round about – and he was obviously a master baker and he was employed by Ellman’s in London Road, Sevenoaks, as their manager. And this was where he was commissioned, obviously, to make the wedding cake for the marriage of Victoria [i.e. Vita] Sackville-West’s parents, which is 1890, and then in about 1899/1900 he then started his own business in Brasted, and he was the village baker there. And his family continued after his death and it traded until the early 1950s.

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It tells you all about the orange blossom, the clematis, lily of the valley, spirea, the shields and the snakes heads, jasmine, stephanotis…

These are all the flowers on it…

I.P.:  Yes, the cake measured two feet by 20 inches and it was three feet high and weighed 90lbs.

Goodness me… It looks like that from the photo!