Queen’s Biscuit Maker

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Introduction
Queen Victoria visited here on 23rd December 1876 - the year she became Empress of India. A smart Mr Romary stands behind the mahogany counter, with Royal orders shown below. Mirrors lined walls, with white cane chairs for tastings. Biscuits came in tins plus bags of broken ones on Fridays. An added plaque shows The Royal Arms.

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Hazle Ceramics
Queen’s Biscuits
Limited Painting of 30
on Tunbridge Wells
Etched plaque & 22ct gold

 26 Church Road has a 1500s timber frame of Sussex oak and a 1700s front. A brick chimney had a faggot oven in the cellar.

One retired piece

 Lion & Unicorn Royal Arms, unchanged since Victoria acceded, 1837.

Private Sale £99.50

Tunbridge Wells Wafers
Alfred Romary set up a bakery here in 1862, with his family of ten living opposite! The first biscuits were his most famous. Made with butter they were rolled to wafer thinness by hand upon marble tops, even after machinery came in. As the business grew, the faggot oven (like Sally Lunn’s) was replaced with gas ovens. The bakery was finally closed by the owners Rowntree in 1963. The last batch of wafers was baked in Glasgow for Charles and Diana’s wedding in 1981.

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Victoria aged 57, two months before her visit to Romary’s. 
 The Pantiles are famous for spa water.
(Victorian) Pantiles on a Romary tin. 