Good Friday – Chelsea Buns

Old Chelsea Bun House Frederick Napoleon Shepherd – from a print at the Museum of London (Wikipedia) ‘RRRRRare Chelsea Buns’ as Jonathan Swift called them in a letter to Stella in 1711. T!he tradition was that on Good Friday Georgian period Londoners would go to Chelsea to buy Chelsea Buns. Thousands of people would turn … Continue reading Good Friday – Chelsea Buns