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Description: | This portrait photograph of Henry Van Vlymen, his wife Ethel, and children Evelyn and David was taken at the family's home in Stoke Newington, north London. In 1889 Henry moved to London from Vlijmen in South Holland. Aged 15, he began work at Smithfield meat market, transferring his knowledge of sheep farming to trading livestock and meat. With an exclusive supply of meat from his family's farm in Holland, Henry's business thrived.
In 1926, around the same time as this picture was taken, the Van Vlymen family business was under threat from the British government's embargo on imported continental meat. Henry's business recovered from this setback. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Museum of London | Subjects: | work Migration and Citizenship | Temporal: | c. 1926 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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