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Inns of York (1897)

Post author By Boak & Bailey
Post date 14th December 2013

The Windmill, Blossom Street

The Black Swan, Peasholme Green — The Black Swan, Peasholme Green http://www.blackswanyork.com/

Bird in Hand, Bootham Bar

Garrick's Head, Petergate — Garrick’s Head, Petergate

The George Inn, Coney Street

Jacob's Well, Trinity Lane — Jacob’s Well, Trinity Lane

The Plumber's Arms, Skeldergate — The Plumber’s Arms, Skeldergate

Star & Garter, Nessgate

The Windmill, Blossom Street

The Wild Man, Water Lane

Illustrations from The Old Inns and Inn Signs of York by Thomas Parsons Cooper (1897) released by the British Library on Flickr.

Tags York, yorkshire

Beer history london

Beer in the British Library

Post author By Boak & Bailey
Post date 29th August 2013
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Drawing of the Sign of the Rose Inn, Fenchurch Street, 1730.

Advertisement for Waltham Brothers Brewery, 1866.

Advertisement for Worthing & Co. beers, 1880.

Flyer complaining about the increasing price of beer, 1881.

Advertisement for Barrett & Elers beer bottles, 1882.

Advertisement for a machine for grinding finings, 1884.

Whitbread Chiswell Street Brewery, 1792.

Advertisement for Whitbread bottled beer, 1888.

Advertisement for T. Foster & Co. beers, 1889.

Brewery, Golden Lane, 1807.

Price list of bottled beers, 1884.

Leaflet advertising the Austro-Bavarian Lager Brewery, London.

The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century images relating to beer and brewing in the gallery above are from the British Library online gallery.

Tags british library, public domain images

Beer history pubs

Gallery: Postcards of Inns & Pubs

Post author By Boak & Bailey
Post date 19th August 2013
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The Crown Inn, Chiddingfold, Surrey.

The Olde Black Bear, Tewkesbury.

Trip To Jerusalem, Nottingham.

Flying Horse Inn, Ashford, Kent.

Highwayman, Okehampton, Devon.

Hunter’s Inn, Devon, from afar.

Hunter’s Inn, Devon, slightly nearer.

Inside the Hunter’s Inn, Devon

A few postcards foraged from a junk shop.

Beer history pubs

Gallery: Old Inns of Old England (1906)

Post author By Boak & Bailey
Post date 16th August 2013
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The Bear Hotel, Devizes, Wiltshire.

The Bell, Woodbridge, Suffolk.

The George, Andover, Hampshire.

The George Inn, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

Interior of the Widow's Son, Bromley by Bow. — Interior of the Widow’s Son, Bromley by Bow.

The King Edgar and the Bear & Billet, Chester.

The Lion & Swan, Congleton, Cheshire.

The Tan Hill Inn, 'North Riding'. — The Tan Hill Inn, ‘North Riding’.

The White Hart, Godstone, Surrey.

The First & Last Inn, Sennen, Cornwall. (Near us..)

Ten illustrations from The Old Inns of Old England by Charles G. Harper (1906), via The Internet Archive, and tidied up a bit by us.

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