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3 unusual facts about The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel


The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel

The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel was a vegetarian hotel that opened in 1898 in the County Buildings (now Grade II* listed), Corporation Street, Birmingham, England, as an expansion of a vegetarian restaurant on the same site.

Mahatma Gandhi is known to have received jars of Nuto Cream and Nuto Cream Soup from the company.

According to his daughter, Kathleen Keleny, it was named after Sir Isaac Pitman, then vice-president of the Vegetarian Society.



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