Butlers Collection

LCC-LFB Warehouse fire, Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey
A major docklands fire at Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey, SE London. It happened during a particularly cold spell for March. The attack on the fire by a large number of firefighters

LCC-LFB Warehouse fire, Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey
A major docklands fire at Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey, SE London. It happened during a particularly cold spell for March. The attack on the fire by a large number of firefighters

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Malting Floor
The Malting Floor at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands. Barley grain lies a foot deep on the floor for ten days, being constantly turned

Old Maid card - Butler. circa 1940s

School for Butlers
Trainee butlers take notes as their teacher points to a blackboard diagram, explaining the correct way to carve lamb

Butler and Tray
The butler brings a packet of cigarettes on a tray

Butler's Amber Ale

Butler's All Malt Stout

Near Butlers Dene - Woldingham, Surrey. Date: 1923

Hedges & Butlers Wine 1890
Series of views of alcohol being produced for Hedges & Butler s, to be sold in Regent Street, London. 1890

Mitchells & Butlers Cricket Club team, Birmingham, UK
Mitchells & Butlers Cricket Club team (brewery), Birmingham, UK, winners of the Birmingham & District League Season, 1911. Date: 1911

LCC-LFB Warehouse fire, Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey
A major docklands fire at Butlers Wharf, Bermondsey, SE London. It happened during a particularly cold spell for March. The attack on the fire by a large number of firefighters

Advertisement for M&B Amber Beer Advertisement for M&B Amber Beer
Advertisement for M&B Amber Beer -- female model (Gillian Watt) holding up a glass. Date: 1959

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery
The busy loading yard at the Mitchells and Butlers Date: circa 1900s

BOOKS / BUTLER / HUDIBRAS
Frontispiece to Samuel Butlers satirical poem Hudibras published 1663-78. Date: first published 1663-78

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

What the Butler Saw - end of pier entertainment. 20th century

Advertisements from The Illustrated London News, 1896
A page of advertisements from The Illustrated London News, 18th January 1896. Products promoted include Halfords curry powder

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery fire engine
The volunteer fire brigade based at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

Mistress and Butler
The mistress of the house discusses the evenings arrangements with her butler

Female model (Gillian Watt) holding up a glass of beer
Advertisement for M&B Amber Beer -- female model (Gillian Watt) drinking from a glass. 1959

Advertisement for Mitchells & Butlers Export Beer, designed specially for the theatre trade. 1954

Vincent de Paul - Butlers
Saint Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660) French priest and founder of the Congregation of the Mission (1625), also known as the Lazarists or Vincentians

Lady and Butler
A lady and her butler Date: 1884

The Maltings, Cape Hill, Staffordshire
The Maltings, Cape Hill, Smethwick, near Birmingham, Staffordshire, England. Mitchells & Butlers Brewery Date: 1910s

Dewars Whisky advertisement
Advertisement for Dewars whisky, featuring a smart footman in full livery and powdered wig carrying a decanter and glass on a tray. Date: 1927

Advertisement for M&B Export Beer -- male model (Derek Prentice) holding a full pint glass. 1959

Frank Hedges Butlers balloon Dolce Far Niente (45, 000cuft) ascending from Monmouth Gas Works on 16 April 1906 during an Easter House Party at the Hendre, Lord Llangattocks seat. Passengers were F

Alans Butlers de Havilland DH37 G-EBDO Sylvia
Alan S. Butlers de Havilland DH37, G-EBDO, Sylvia, was flown to fifth place by Major H. Hemming in the 1923 Kings Cup Race. Date: 1923

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Mashing Room
A corner of the Mashing Room at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands. The malt is drawn from the store-bins by a wonderful system of Archimedian screws...thence to

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Bowling Green
The Bowling Green at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands. The site had a number of sporting and leisure facilities for the brewery workers

William Waters Butler, who in 1909 was Vice-Chairman of Mitchells and Butlers Brewery. His father, the co-founder of the business, had died in 1907

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Kiln
A malt-drying kiln at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

Henry Mitchell (1837 - 1914)
Henry Mitchell, Chairman of the Brewers, Mitchells and Butlers, based at the Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery
A view of the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, at Smethwick, West Midlands. The brewery closed in September 2002 Date: 1909

Good Housekeeping front cover, January 1933
Front cover of Good Housekeeping magazine featuring a little girl carefully doing the washing up

Butler Ladles Soup
Mr. Edgar, the stuffy butler of the Edwardian Country House, carefully ladles out the soup into bowls during a formal dinner

Severe Edwardian Butler
The stern butler (Hugh Edgar) of the Edwardian Country House

Dour Butler at Doors
A rather dour butler opens the doors of an Edwardian mansion

Dickens / Little Dorrit
Fanny and Little Dorrit call on Mrs Merdle

Butler Dusting Books
In the library I found, to my surprise, William on a ladder dusting books

Butler in his Pantry
The butler in his pantry, polishing the silver

Butler from Punch
Superior Education Butler carrying a tray of glasses converses with a page

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