Pay a visit to Tiptree’s Jam Museum

A small village in Essex that you probably didn’t know existed, yet with an instantly memorable name is also home to a museum – of the making of jam.The village is Tiptree, and since 1885, Wilkin and Sons have been making their world-famous jams here. Quite literally world-famous, as their first batch, under the brand name of The Britannia Fruit Preserving Company was sold in its entirety, for shipping to Australia.
Today, Tiptree jams are a curiously old fashioned looking product on