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Australian Jubilee Meat, 1897

In August 1897, some 167 carcasses of mutton Dundee received from Australia into Britain. This was a donation or benefaction for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. It was officially called the “Australian Jubilee Meat” and was transported in refrigerators on the long sea voyage arriving in Britain that Autumn. Taken to London, it was stored there […]