A Simple Copper Kettle
Edited from James Baker:
The copper kettle for which the restaurant in Lytton was named probably belonged to my maternal great grandmother Isobel Marie Loring. My maternal grandmother, Sevilla Isobel Pudney (nee Loring), started the Elite Tea Room in Lytton in the late 1920s and served tea from the copper kettle.
My mother, Rose Isobel Baker (nee Pudney), moved from Pudney Flats in the late 1930s into Lytton to help her mother run the Tea House, which had become a full service restaurant.
The name was changed in the late 1940s to the Copper Kettle Cafe and the copper kettle was retired from service and placed on display until the restaurant closed in the early 1970s.
The Baker family kindly donated the copper kettle to the Lytton Museum and Archives. After the Copper Kettle Cafe closed, it was purchased by new owners and later burned in the fire that consumed Gammie's store.
A well known landmark in Lytton, the Copper Kettle Cafe had become a favourite restaurant throughout the Fraser Canyon.
The Lytton Museum and Archives published articles by Rose Baker in the Volume 3 Issue 2 and Volume 4 Issue 2 newsletters.