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Banquet Menu

Collection of Truro City Council (Photo courtesy of Pip Hayler Photography)

Banquet Menu

Made: 1890

Record Number: HFC:2019:94

This menu card is an example of an elaborate design used for formal ocassions in the last nineteenth century. On the front of the nenu is an image of Truro's City Hall. Inside the menu is a list of foods that were served at the banquet hosted by Mr Arthur Laverton, mayor between 1889-1891. Some items have survived the test of time. Some haven't! Cornwall Gazette states 'The halls and vestibules were garnished with all kinds of plants and art drapery, while the supper-room was fitted up in a most elaborate as a drawing-room, handsome artistic furniture being used for accommodations of the visitors; and the walls were lined with large mirrors festooned with handsome draperies in art colours'.

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