Barges & Bread

Di Murrell is a renowned author and winner of the Sophie Coe Prize for food history. She writes for various French travel magazines as well as Petits Propos Culinaires. Di and her husband, Tam, spent many years on barges, transporting barrels of lime pulp from London docks to the Hemel Hempstead wharf belonging to Rose & Sons for their famous Lime Cordial. They also made frequent trips carrying heavy loads like sand, grain, coal, or lime, and Di learned the value of slow cooking. For several years, they transported grain from Tilbury Docks on the River Thames to Coxes Mill on the River Wey.