The Christmas Cracker memorial in Finsbury Square

What looks like a typically grand Victorian drinking fountain in the City of London is in fact a memorial to the family that invented the Christmas Cracker, well, sort of.That the Christmas Cracker was invented in London is unchallenged, but some of the stories of how they were invented may itself be a later invention.
The gist is that Tom Smith, born in 1823, was apprenticed to a City of London confectioner, and after learning his trade he opened his first shop on Goswell Road in Clerkenwell in