Brown Windsor soup Brown Windsor soup Brown Windsor soup is a British meat soup that is said by conventional wisdom to have been popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, although well documented evidence for the soup does not exist until the 1920s and 30s. In any case, "Brown Windsor soup became shorthand for awful food," and was used as a prop by comics in the post war years. It is unclear whether this often-written-about soup is of Victorian origin. The food writer Alan Davidson in "The Oxford Companion to Food" (2006) refers to an elaborate late Victorian recipe in Garrett's "Encyclopedia of
Coleman Bridge (Windsor, Massachusetts) Coleman Bridge (Windsor, Massachusetts) Coleman Bridge is a historic Ball-patent pipe pony truss bridge in Windsor, Massachusetts. It is the only known surviving "in situ" bridge of its type, one of about two dozen built in western New England. It is located on an abandoned stretch of Windsor Bush Road which crosses Phelps Brook in what is now a remote upland section of Windsor. The bridge was located near farms owned by the Coleman family, giving the bridge its name. The bridge type was invented by Charles H. Ball, an entrepreneur from nearby Peru who developed the idea of using