In 1897, London’s Lampposts Dispensed Hot Coffee, Tea, and “Fluid Beef”

Any reader of Victorian literature will wonder how much a ha’penny was actually worth in those days. For a little more than a year at the very end of that period, it could buy you a cup of coffee, cocoa, milk, tea, or “fluid beef” — which would pour out of a lamppost on the […]

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