GALLERY: More Brewing Aristocrats
These pictures of British brewing bigwigs all come from the 1900 Licensed Victuallers’ Year Book and follow on from this post from last June. Mr Sampson Hanbury, business partner of Benjamin ‘Ben’...
View ArticleGALLERY: With the Lads c.1974
This set of colourful beer mats from Cameron’s of Hartlepool from c.1974 offers an interesting glimpse into attitudes of the recent past. Roy Orbison on the set of The Glitterball (1977). Luke...
View ArticleGALLERY: Vaux Beer Mats 1970s-80s
Vaux was an important brewery in Sunderland in the North East of England which was founded in the early 19th century and collapsed at the turn of the 21st. These beer mats all come from the massive bin...
View ArticlePICTURES: Driving to the Pub, 1956
A slightly odd one, this: we came across an old brochure advertising MG Magnette saloon cars dating from around 1956 featuring the following two wonderfully of-their-time images. This is the brochure’s...
View ArticleGALLERY: ‘You Ought to Know Whose Beer You’re Drinking’
These two leaflet were among the lovely pile of ephemera Steve ‘Beer Justice’ Williams sent us when he moved house. The Young’s leaflet is dated 1979 and the Fuller’s one, we guess, is of about the...
View ArticleGALLERY: Modern Watney’s Pubs from Matchboxes
These were carefully removed from matchboxes produced, we would guess, in about 1968, probably for sale in Watney’s pubs. (Any matchbox collectors who want to correct us, go for it.) The Silver Sword,...
View ArticleGALLERY: Home Front Beer, WWII
We recently discovered the Imperial War Museum digital archive which is (perhaps surprisingly) crammed with pictures of pubs, beer and brewing. Here are some of the best shots of ‘everyday life’ on the...
View ArticleGALLERY: Not Always About the Beer
We spent the last week and a bit flying round the north west of England looking at (a) brewery records and (b) pubs. We needed dinner near our hotel in Liverpool and stumbled upon Thomas Rigby’s, an...
View ArticleGALLERY: Beer Ads From the New Elizabethan Era, 1951-1953
We’ve been collecting these beer advertisements from booklets and magazines published in the celebratory period from the 1951 Festival of Britain to the Coronation in 1953 and, though we’ve shared the...
View ArticleTruman’s Post-War Pubs, 1967
This set of pictures and accompanying notes come from editions of the Truman Hanbury & Buxton in-house magazine, the Black Eagle Journal, published in 1967. As before, we’ve tried to include...
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