Lavender Harvest
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Lavender is grown at Heacham Lavender Farm in Norfolk and the flowers are processed into lavender oil.
- Researcher Comments
- Title on British Pathe online database reads "Lavender Farm".
Commentary: Perhaps, a century or two ago, a traveller from France talking about vineyards and grape harvests gave a Norfolk landowner an idea or two. It’s nice to think so, anyway, because there’s a lot of similarity in the methods used in distilling Cognac and the making of lavender oil. The flat Norfolk fields are famous for the abundance of the sweetly-smelling flowers which are gathered in high summer and taken to the distillery. There, with rites just as jealously guarded as any vineyard’s secrets, the flowers are transformed into the softest oil and gentlest aroma sought by the world’s women. - Keywords
- Agriculture
- Locations
- England; Norfolk
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- British Pathe online database
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