Fpaljacks and Tea
Enjoy tucking into your Blackfriars flapjack during your mid-morning tea break? Here are is a fact that you might not have known about tea to consider as you enjoy your tea and flapjack this morning.
Although by the 1820s tea was £1 per pound it was still one of the most popular items for smugglers, who sold it for about 6s (30p) per pound. Then the average weekly wage for ordinary people was about £1 per week!