Ales Collection

England / Ludlow 1950S
Broad Gate, Ludlow, Shropshire, the last of seven gates in the old city walls. The town is on the Welsh borders and played a great part in the Marches history

Five adjacent pubs in Portsmouth, Hampshire
Portsmouth was a town of many wonders in 1911. One of them was the possession of five fully licensed houses standing next to each other

Bristol Temple Meads Station, Bristol
Street scene outside Bristol Temple Meads Great Western Railway Station, Bristol. An open-topped bus is passing by, and a train is crossing the railway bridge

Silhouette of a man entering a country pub at the end of the day. An advertisement for Worthington beer

England / Ludlow 1930S
The ancient Shropshire town of Ludlow. Broad Gate, situated on one of its steepest streets, is the last of the seven gates of the old city walls

Badger hunters outside Plough Inn, Pyecombe, Sussex

Advert, Watneys Beer, King of Ales, playing card back

Scene of an accident in an Islington street, London
Scene of an accident in an Islington street, North London, with a trolley bus passing by

The best wines, liquors, ales & lager beer, we are selling here. Food and alcholic beverages on table. Date c1871. The best wines, liquors, ales & lager beer, we are selling here

Advert / Fosters Ales
M B FOSTERs ALES Bottled beers

Lion Brewery
The Lion Brewery Co is a British heritage brewery that was founded in 1836 in Lambeth, London. For over a hundred years, the brewery shipped its heavily-hopped ales to trading posts

Advert, Cannon Ales, Sheffield, Always to the Front

Persia, Tehran. Panoramic of the city and Elburz mountains
Persia, Tehran. Panoramic of the city and Elburz mountain range. Engraving by Ales. Panorama Universal. History of Persia, 1851. Date: 2018

British smaller Inland Postcard
This replaced the earlier larger card and is an early example of how advertisers and merchants were making use of this cheap and efficient form of communication

Lower Clapton Road, Hackney, East London, with the Kings Hall and a large number of children on the pavement on the right, and a horse-drawn bus. Date: 1905

The Albion Hotel (public house), East Molesey, Surrey. Date: circa 1910s

Hope & Anchor pub, Lisson Grove, Marylebone, London
Hope & Anchor pub, 9 Earl Street (on the corner with Dukes Mews), Lisson Grove, Marylebone, London. Date: circa 1908

Duke of Sussex pub, 27 Latimer Road, Notting Hill, West London. Charles Webster was the publican in 1913 - serving Sichs Chiswick Ales. circa 1913

Oxford Street and Oxford Circus, London. Date: circa 1900s

Herne, Kent with The Red Lion Inn Date: circa 1908

Turpins Cave pub - Epping Forest, Essex
Turpins Cave pub - Epping. Turpins Cave is an area of Epping Forest in Essex which has been attributed as a hiding place of the highwayman Dick Turpin. Now a private house. Date: 1905

Group with dray horses outside Lacons Yarmouth Ales
Group of people with dray horses outside Lacons Yarmouth Ales public house. circa 1900

Chesterfield / 1962
Chesterfield, Derbyshire: the crooked spire Date: 1962

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

Czech Republic. Prague. The Storch House with figurative pai
Czech Republic. Prague. The Storch House (No.16) Also called At the Stone Virgin Mary. Facade adorned with figurative painting of St. Wenceslas on horseback

Group of fishermen with baskets and rods outside a pub
Group photo of fishermen and two boys with baskets and fishing rods outside a pub, Warwicks Newark Ales & Stouts. Date: circa 1910

Scene in Brixham Harbour, Devon, with people enjoying the sunshine. circa 1960s

Stationery, H M Smeath, Truro, Cornwall
Stationery, H M Smeath, Wine Merchant, Victoria Square, Truro, Cornwall, with an advertisement for Rogers Ales and Stouts, Bristol, and handwritten details below. 1916

Public House, Unknown, Isle of Wight, England. Advertising Worthington Always & Simmonds Ales Date: 1920s

The Village, Herne, Kent
The Village, Herne, Herne Bay, near Whitstable/Margate, Kent, England. Showing the Red Lion Inn - Selling Flints Ales Date: 1911

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

THE MAGPIE INN PUB
The novel inn sign of The Magpie Inn, Little Stonham, Suffolk, England. This is unique as being one of the few in England which stretches right across a public highway. Date: 1960s

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

Norsemen at Banquet
Norsemen at table in medieval Scandinavia

Louis, Duc D alais
LOUIS EMANUEL de VALOIS, duc D ALAIS French cavalry general in the kings service. Alais (now Ales) is a town near Nimes, in the Gard. We bank there

Cycling to the Bell Inn
Three cyclists, two women and a man, arrive at the Bell Inn, which boasts the Minster Tea Gardens and sells Rigdens Fine Ales

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