JOHN PUDNEY - A DRAUGHT CONTENTMENT illus.Drawings BRITISH BEER/PUB HIST. 1ST ED.1971 WITH DUSTCOVER

A sense of continuity and tradition pervades the industry for British Beer and the British Pub have become cherished national symbols. Yet there has to be constant production serving needs and appetites which are never static: and throughout the years brewers, though traditionalists, have never been slow to adapt their resources and their policies to changing times. This was one of the first industries to take advantage of steam power.

HISTORY  Black and white photos and drawings:  Drawing of Largest New Brewery in 1883. Old photos William Smith with nephews Henry and Frank Riley. Portraits Ralph Thrale,  Henry Thrale, Hester Threale, Reynolds portrait of Dr, Samuel Johnson. Portraits of John and Edward Courage. Photos of  Chimney adcaster brewery. Old Coaching bill, Group of the Oakhill Brewery 1925, Edward Bird's drawings of George's Brewery 1932. Georges fleet 1920's of ten steam wagons at Bristol. Last of the Georges Greys (horses). Motorised transport. Showing how beer was transport, Two light engins "Oakhill and "Mendip" not so far as known in existence any more. Load of Stoakhill stout to Brewery. Bristol shot tower Redcliffe HIll.Design for Simmonds, Simmonds house in Nineteeth hundred. Letter to Sandhurst before Waterloo. Lovey old drawing Barclay Perkins Brewhouse in mid-nineteenth century. Birds-eye view of Southwark Brewery over double page taken from Thrale. Copies of letters. Plan of Horseleydown 1544 and 1872 where brewery was established. Drawing of a Fair at Horselydown in 1590 with Thames in background, Picture of Shad Thames in 1948, riverside highway. etc. etc.

 New English Library Hardback 1971 1st Ed clean well-binded condition with dust cover also good condition SBN 450009947 152 pages, 152 pages with illustrated old photos.