From children’s birthday tea parties to formal dress of tails and trains developed. Afternoon by the 1890s developed an etiquette of protocol.

The invention of afternoon Tea.

Two things began to happen, tea consumption began to increase due to the long gap between lunch and dinner and then used as an unwinding after dinner before guests would go home.

By the late 19th tea for breakfast became a standard staple for all British classes

The tea for sale spawned all new types of marketing ideas.

Clipper ships race from China to Britain, these delivery races would create more publicity for advertising than the tea companies could.

Breaking into the 19th century, a divide between Britain And China opened up new sources tea.

Handsome tea tables, silver and China tea services tried to keep pace with Britains voracious hunger for tea.

In Towns all across Britain , destination spa were adding specialized tea rooms. In the tea was no longer an upper-class beverage it was now a drink that everyone enjoyed all across Britain.

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