 “T.F.Buxton had provided a banquet to do justice to such guests, but the Lord Brougham who was always something of an innovator, suggested that the occasion demanded rather steaks and porter.He had his way, and so the meal consisted largely of beef steaks cooked on the furnace of the brewery boiler house.”

This was also a time when Truman's was doing a lot of exporting, primarily to the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.It was also supplying the East India Company and the British Army.