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A century of HP Sauce

A museum display showing the evolution of HP Sauce packaging, featuring a vintage advertising card and five bottles spanning from the 1910s to 1990. The earliest bottles carry the "Garton's H.P. Sauce" label from the Midland Vinegar Company, with dense Victorian-era typography describing the sauce as a blend of oriental fruits, spices and pure malt vinegar. Later bottles show the progressive simplification of the label design, retaining the iconic Houses of Parliament illustration throughout. A printed card to the left notes that the sauce was first made by Frederick Garton of Nottingham in the 1870s, and that the recipe was sold to the Midland Vinegar Company in 1903. On display at the Museum of Brands, London.

HP Sauce bottles from the 1910s to 1990, Museum of Brands.

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