Alcoholic Gallery

Guiltcross Union Workhouse, Kenninghall, Norfolk

The Guiltcross Union Workhouse, designed by William Thorold, was erected in 1836-7 at Kenninghall, Norfolk. After its closure in 1902 the site was acquired by the Rev Harold Burden and reopened in 1904 as the Eastern Counties or East Harling Inebriates Reformatory for treating alcoholics. The site housed German prisoners during the First World War

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

The dram drinker

A scruffy dram drinker keenly slurps on a glass of gin at one of London's many gin palaces; the engraving accompanies an article highlighting the depravity of the gin palace in Victorian society: Poverty and misery, and a want of the proper necessaries of life, have driven, and are still driving hundreds to drink in this vast metropolis

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Irish Drunk Pat and his drinking logic

Tourist - "I say Pat, why do you always take beer and whiskey Mixed?" Pat - "Shure, yer Anner, if oi dhrink beer oi get full before oi'm dhrunk, and if oi dhrink whiskey oi get dhrunk before oi'm full, so it shuts me better to mix thim." !!! Date: 1901

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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