Bovril Beef Hot Drink Illness RecoveryOriginal vintage food advertising poster for Bovril After illness build up your strength on Bovril featuring bold black and red lettering on a white background with a black double line frame border. Printed in Britain in the 1930s, this campaign used puns and word play to resemble the public announcement propaganda posters of the time. Developed by John Lawson Johnston in the 1870s, Bovril is a beef meat extract paste often used to make a hot drink or