The source of our story...
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In May 1838, the publishers Simpkin and Marshall (London) published ‘A Guide To Henley Upon Thames And Its Vicinity’, and dedicated it to WPW Freeman, Esq. the then Lord Mayor of Henley (and High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, no less.)
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The pocket-book was a typical guidebook of the time (an early Victorian ‘Lonely Planet’), painting in purple-prose the prospects of the town and its environs.
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I suspect it was a rather limited edition and lost to time, but for the fact a facsimile was produced by Julian Berrisford of Bell St (possibly of the Bell Street bookshop, in the town) which our daughter bought at some point during her time at The Henley College (and likely a charity-shop purchase.)

The facsimile would have remained an overlooked book on our groaning bookshelves save for the fact that on ‘rediscovering’ it - finding the ‘source’ - recently, I turned through the pages and, at 111, the advert for The Henley Sauce.

Well, given Worcester has its Lea & Perrins, Sheffield its Hendersons and the House of Parliament its own HP, I thought it high time Henley rediscovered it’s sauce - the condimental kind, aside from all the things that draw people here now from far and wide.

So, here’s how I imagined The Henley Sauce could leap from the pages thumbed by people 186 years ago and into the kitchen cabinets of the 21st Century.

Unlikely I know, but until a contemporary bottle and label from the period emerges here’s my Henley revival.

And here's the we pick up the story again, nearly 200 years later.

Re-introducing The Henley Sauce.
Since 1838