The Hive Honey Shop in Battersea was recently awarded ‘The Best Honey in London’ at the 2013 London Honey Show. Visitors to the award-winning honey shop can choose from over 700 products including fine honeys, beeswax candles, royal jelly, cakes, sweets, and cosmetics. Visitors can also ‘gaze into the secret world of the honey bee’ through a 5-ft high, glass-fronted beehive filled with 20,000 live bees. James Hamill, head beekeeper and owner of The Hive Honey Shop, has had bee-keeping running in his family since the 1920s, and his shop is filled with family heirlooms as well as other bee related items he has collected throughout the years. Look for the ‘world’s largest honey stirrer’ on display as Mr. Hamill attempts to break a new Guinness World Record (www.thisislocallondon.co.uk)
- The Hive Honey Shop
- 93 Northcote Road, SW11 6PL