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Monthly Meeting – “How the British Fell in Love with Tea”
23 April, 2024 @ 14:30
The talk will be given by:- Simon Ritchie
Simon is part of the Leatherhead Community Association.
The British have been drinking tea since the 17th Century, in those days imported from China at great expense .Later, The East India Company decided to create their own Tea Industry in India, but they had no suitable plants and did not know how to turn the raw plants into tea.
What followed was a trade of drug pushing, industrial espionage and smuggling.