J.B. Priestley in Bradford, on Sunday, in the rain
In his travelogue English Journey, published in 1934 but based on observations made in the autumn of 1933, the writer J.B. Priestley unknowingly foretells the fate of the public house. We’ve been...
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20th Century pubs in 21st Century Bristol
We recently gave a talk to the 20th Century Society about 20th century pubs in Bristol. This blog post is taken from the material that we used. We hardly mention any Bristol pubs in 20th Century Pub,...
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Cask ale in the 1930s: bugs, smellers and Baltic oak
“Casks are a great source of spoiling well-brewed beer…” That’s the judgement of J.A. Pryor, Chairman of the London brewery Truman, Hanbury & Buxton, writing in The Black Eagle in July 1930. It’s...
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What on earth is a ‘public wharfinger’?
We know London has numerous reminders of the paternalistic empire building of its breweries, from suburban sports grounds to social housing, but it had never occurred to us that they might also have...
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What were roadhouses and how were they different to pubs?
Roadhouses emerged in Britain in the 1930s and were large, out-of-town entertainment complexes, sometimes serving drinks – not pubs. A few years ago Historic England published a report into inter-war...
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