The Victorians had a craving for intoxicating liquor and Burrell's mobile distillery may have played its part in quenching that thirst. It's very easy to look upon the Victorian era as one of strict moral codes or temperance and to describe as 'Victorian' ideas or attitudes deemed to be old fashioned by today's standards. We may find it strange, for example, to think that in the 1830s temperance societies began campaigning against the recreational consumption of alcohol, with some groups seeking total prohibition whilst others advocated abstention.
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