Caption For Great Dunmow, The Dunmow Flitch 2000
Central to the ceremony is the flitch of bacon itself.
Caption For Selborne, High Street 1961
He wrote of 'my landlady here at Selborne, who, while I am writing my notes, is getting me a rasher of bacon, and has already covered the table with a nice clean cloth.'
Caption For Flookburgh, The Village 1912
Someone, perhaps Mr
Gillam the grocer who
owned the shop (left), is
writing on the blackboard:
lard was 6½d, sugar 2½d
(one penny today) and
4d, with bacon at 8d, and
cheese 9d and 10d.
Caption For Hale, Ashley Road 1957
At this time shoppers could expect to pay about 1s 4d for 2lb of sugar, 2s 11d for a lb of streaky bacon, 3s 10d for a dozen eggs, and 4d for a 14oz loaf.
Caption For Calne, The Strand C1955
Brian Coombs, who
drove delivery lorries in the 1960s
and 70s, remembers making several
runs to Windsor Castle to deliver
sausages and bacon.
Caption For Great Dunmow, High Street C1955
Every four years a side of bacon (a flitch)
is presented to a married couple who can prove that they
have not regretted their marriage a year and a day after the ceremony.