www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/_pubs/country-house.php From 1867, Harry Hems, the ecclesiastical sculptor, would invite the poor to an annual Christmas Day dinner. In 1884, he paid for a party of about sixty elderly people to lunch at the Country House Inn, where they enjoyed beef, turkey, a goose and a boars head, followed by plum pudding, mince pies and apple tart.
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From 1867, Harry Hems, the ecclesiastical sculptor, would invite the poor to an annual Christmas Day dinner. In 1884, he paid for a party of about sixty elderly people to lunch at the Country House Inn, where they enjoyed beef, turkey, a goose and a boars head, followed by plum pudding, mince pies and apple tart.