Description:Tinted postcard view of this area. The park lies to the right of the picture. The two trams moving along the road are a far cry from the traffic on Dudley Road today. The building to the rear left of the view has a sign on the wall for "Bovril" which was first sold in 1886.
The name derives from a name that the inventor John Lawson Johnston found in a book. Vril was 'an electric fluid' which according to the book 'cured diseases and established, equilibrium of natural powers'. The Latin word for beef was 'Bos' and therefore BO-VRIL was originated.