Was Lord Lucan from Garstang?
In answer to your question – Lord Lucan was not from Garstang, but oddly enough Vesta Curries were invented there nearly 150 years ago, by the enterprising owner of a local cotton mill, who was left with a load of unusable yarn, after the blockade of the American ports during the Civil War prevented him from returning it for a refund. Noticing that his employees would eat anything at the end of a 14 hour day, he experimented with coating balls of fluff with old engine oil and drying them out – then rehydrating them by means of a handy sewage pipe – adding empty silkworm casings – and a legend was born. It is not known whether Lord Lucan’s last meal before setting out on his murderous rampage was a vesta curry – but it would explain a lot. Try filling the trumpet with wet cement and wait for Albert to bust his hernia playing it. Sorry I can’t be more help – my vesta curry’s just welded itself to the side of the pan – grubs up.
