Ale Collection (page 6)

The Bull and Bush, Hampstead, London. Date: circa 1906

Men sitting on their veteran motorcycles drinking beer
Four men on their veteran motorcycles drinking beer circa 1910

Advertisement for M&B All Bright beer -- male model pouring beer from a bottle into a glass. 1959

MOTHER HUFF CAP PUB
The splendid sign of the Mother Huff Cap pub, depicting a strapping wench serving a flagon of frothy ale, Great Alne, Warwickshire, England. Date: 1950s

New Quay Inn, New Quay Lane, Brixham, Devon. Date: circa 1920s

Bishop of Truro enjoying a pint of beer, Redruth, Cornwall
The Bishop of Truro, Peter Mumford (1922-1992), enjoying a pint of beer, Redruth, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Advertisement for Manns brown ale -- male model holding up a bottle and a glass. 1959

Old Rose - A Cavaliers Drinking Song - " Now we re met like jovial fellows, let us do as wise men tell us, Sing Old Rose & burn the bellows

Health, Wealth and All Prosperity. The scene of a fun evening - pipes, cigarettes and cigars have been smoked, cards have been played and ale and whiskey have been drunk! Date: circa 1909

The True Born Englishman
Traditional song with music. Image depicting an English soldier with a jug of ale. Artist: Ethel Parkinson Date: 1904

Common hops, Humulus lupulus.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

Silhouettes, Party Fun by Father William
Silhouette illustrations by H.L. Oakley for a booklet, Party Fun by Father William. The booklet, advertising William Youngers Scotch Ale, contains an array of party games and tricks

Silhouette design, Party Fun by Father William
Silhouette design by H.L. Oakley, for the front cover of a booklet, Party Fun by Father William. The booklet, advertising William Youngers Scotch Ale, contains an array of party games and tricks

Barrels of drink
Slide showing a picture of barrels containing various drinks stacked up. The drinks include gin, brandy, whiskey, rum, port, sherry, porter, ale and stout. Part of Box 366

Barclay Perkins Brewery
The Anchor Brewery in Southwark taken over by Barclay Perkins and Co in 1781. By 1815 it was the most productive brewery in the world with 330, 000 barrels a year but was burned down in 1832. C.1820

Driver and charabanc
Driver standing in front of his charabanc outside a pub

Ramsgate, Kent - Habour scene with boats
Ramsgate, Kent - Harbour scene with fishing boats and pedestrians. Date: circa 1900

Advert for Rosss Belfast Ginger Ale 1911
Supreme luxury Rosss Belfast Ginger Ale, available on the Olympic, the largest vessel at the time. Date: 1911

Bailiffs Daughter of Islington, London - Pint at the bar
A Bailiffs Daughter drinking a pint of foaming ale at the bar of a pub in Islington, London Date: circa 1911

Cockney Couple on Hampstead Heath reading a magazine
" The Upper Ten" - being read by a Cockney Couple (and their bulldog) under a tree on Hampstead Heath. A few bottles of ale have been consumed. Date: 1901

Cheesehill (Chesil) Rectory, Winchester
The oldest house in Winchester, the Old Cheesehill Rectory. Now called The Chesil Rectory it is a restaurant serving fine cuisine. The building dates back to1450. Date: circa 1906

de Havilland DH87B Hornet Moth, SE-ALE. The artwork on the cowling depicts Super-grandfather, the hero of a Swedish series

Up and going, Excelsior ginger ale... Date 1885 Aug. 29

Belgium - Ypres - Cafe selling British Beer
Belgium - Ypres - Hotel de la Gare Restaurant selling British Bass Beer, attesting to the number of tourists from the UK flocking to the town after the end of World War One. Date: circa 1920s

Parnassos Oros
Mount Parnassus, near Delphi, is where Apollo and the Muses hang out : the other peak is sacred to Bacchus, hence the association of poets with wine and ale. Date: 1850

Barmaid Grins & Bears It
An insincere barmaid laughs at a customers bad joke as she serves him a frothy tankard of ale! Date: 1967

Advert for Rosss Belfast Dry Ginger Ale
Advertisement for Rosss Belfast Dry Ginger Ale made from the famous Ross Artesian Well Water and by the company W A Ross & Sons, Ltd

The Tatler Summer Number front cover 1951
Front cover of The Tatler Summer Number 1951 showing the Tatler mascot in his 18th century frock coat and tricorn hat enjoying a tankard of refreshing ale served to him by a typical serving wench

Cornelius Caton with his ale at the White Lion, Richmond, where he was the landlord. Date: circa 1780

Mother Hubbard / Chair
She went to the ale-house To get him some beer But when she came back The dog sat in a chair Date: 1890s

Ale at public house
A gamekeeper, fresh from a shoot stops off at The Sportsmans Rest to be served a jug of ale with a loaf of bread

New Years gift / Ally Sloper
Ally Sloper celebrates new year nursing his new born son whilst his exhausted wife sit up in bed recovering with a bottle of Ale and a sandwich

Worthington Crosswords advertisement
An advertisement for Worthington Ales at the time of the craze for crosswords showing an engrossed crossword puzzler bumping into people and causing chaos in his wake as he walks along

A road sweeper
A rather ragged dustman or road sweeper with his sweeping brushes and shovel, cart and empty bottle of ale! Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Lear / Nonsense / Man & Owl
There was an Old Man with a owl, who continued to bother and howl; He sat on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, which refreshed that Old Man and his owl

Rosss ginger ale
Advertisement for Rosss Belfast Dry Ginger Ale from 1913

THE CROSS HANDS PUB
The Cross Hands inn sign, near Gloucester, England. This amusing pictorial inn sign shows two hands crossed, holding foaming tankards of ale!

Social / Liverpool Pub
A man in cloth cap outside a pub in Liverpool

Four Ale Houses
Four country ale-houses

Bierkeller Waitress 1901
Waitress in a German bierkeller brings tankards of foaming ale to her customers

Mummers, Worcestershire
Worcestershire Mummers caper outside an inn door, while the hostess brings out a jug of ale for them

Lobster, Oysters & Ale
A plate of oysters and a lobster, accompanied by a glass of pale ale

Advert for Youngers Ale
YOUNGERs SCOTCH ALE Scotch - wi a head on it

Advert / Ginger Ale / Punch
Rosss Ginger Ale

Quack Doctor / 1866
Travelling quack doctor in an ale house

Pipe, Pint of Beer, Cane
A pint of foaming ale, a pipe, cane, hat and gloves; items befitting the country gentleman of leisure. The Old Albion Inn, Newquay is seen in the background

Last of the Picts
A legend from Galloway tells how the last Pict refuses to divulge to the conquering Scots the secret of how to make heather-ale. The secret is lost

Beer Connoisseur
An appreciative beer drinker studies the colour and aspect of his ale

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