Cider Collection

Transportable Ciderpress
A transportable cider press in use at Pensford, Somerset South-west England) : the fruit is first ground in a mill, then crushed in a press to extract the cider

The wassail bowl
Locals gather round to drink hot mulled cider out of the wassail bowl. Artists: Alan Wright & Vernon Stokes Date: circa 1910

Cider Press - Normandy. Two different varieties of press at work - a screw press and a cranked masher

Fte Day in a Cider Orchard, Normandy (1878). Hennessy, William John 1839-1917. Date: 1878

Advert / Schweppes Cider
CIDER An elegant lady holding out a glass of bubbling cider

Wassailing Apple Trees
In Devon and Somerset, apple growers wassail orchards on 17 January, with songs and a bucket of hot cider; a tree is lightly sprinkled, then the wassailers drink the rest

Jester carrying a wassail bowl
A jester in red and blue costume, carrying a wassail bowl and enjoying the aroma coming from it. Wassail was a medieval drink, a kind of punch made from hot mulled cider

Wagner / Gill / Ring Cycle
RICHARD WAGNER German composer in a satirical comment on his four-part opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen

Pressing Cider Apples
The Pound-House of a Devon cider farm : on the right is the mill, and on the left is the press where the mock of crushed apples is built into a square heap for pressing

Cider Pressing 18th C
Apples are being pressed to make cider in a French barn of the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Cider maker, Somerset, England
A cider maker wearing a trilby hat and an apron, leans on an old wooden wagon and drinks a pint of cider among the casks and barrels in the outbuilding of a cider works in Somerset

West Country Yokel
A sterotypical image of a West country yokel, drinking scrumpy

Cider pressing
Tower to crush the apples and old cider press in Normandy in northern France. Date: circa 1870s

Brittany - Local Bretons dance around a jug of local cider
Brittany - Inebriated Local Bretons (and a pair of pigs) dance around a jug (pitcher) of local cider. One chap (left) has certainly had a little too much.... Date: circa 1910s

Cider Apple Picking
Cider making : collecting the grass-fruit

Cider Advertisement
John Symons Devonshire Cyder

Carhampton Apple Tree
APPLE TREE CUSTOM Trees are toasted with mulled cider while singing a wassail song; cider-soaked toast is left for robins, and guns are fired to frighten evil spirits

Kentish Cider Drinkers
After a hard morning ploughing, two Kentish farm workers take a well earned break and pour themselves a mug of cider from a pottery flask

Advert, Gaymer's Cyder

Rue de la Jonquiere, Paris, France
Rue de la Jonquiere, 17th arrondissement, Paris, France. Date: 1910s

Cartoon, Sam Hall, Cider Drinking Song. 19th century

Adverts including for the Highland Railway
Page of adverts in The Bystander, including for Gieves, the Highland Railway, Booths Gin and Whiteways Cyders. Date: 1922

Fore Street, Tiverton, Devon circa 1920s

Bringing in Christmas
Pagan Christmas, with people enjoying the festive spirit with some hot mulled cider or two!

Aveling and Porter BS class Road Roller Rosie the Cider Girl
Maker: Aveling & Porter Type: Road Roller Class: BS Name: Rosie the Cider Girl Date: 1970s-1980s

ANCIENT ENGLISH RUSTIC
An ancient English countryman wearing a white smock frock - useful for keeping his clothes clean when working in the fields. Date: 1906

Pouring cider in cider barn at Dunkertons cider, England
A man pours cider from a barrel into an earthenware jug in the cider barn at Dunkertons Cider, Herefordshire, England Date: 1988

Symons Cyder Mills, Totnes, Devon
View of Symons Cyder Mills on the River Dart at Totnes, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Man filling a bucket at a water pump
A man filling a bucket at a water pump, outside an inn called The Plume of Feathers, recommended by the Automobile Association, serving lunches and teas as well as draught cider

The first drawing of an elephant drinking cider
elephant drinking cider 1966

Flower display, York Road, Battersea, SW London
Flower display in the doorway of a public house, York Road, Battersea, SW London. circa 1900

Cider Making, 1850
Cider making : laying the fruit before pressing. Date: 1850

Cornish Cider Mill
An old stone cider mill, from Cornwall, southwest England

Laying Cider Apples
Laying the fruit in the apple loft of a Devon farm Date: 1850

Firing at the apple-tree in Devonshire
On the Twelfth Eve in Devonshire, it was custom for the farmer to leave his warm fireside accompanied by a band of rustics with guns and blunderbusses, goto the orchard

West Country yokel, Scrumpy Man
A sterotypical image of a West Country yokel, drinking Lands End Scrumpy (cider). Date: circa 1970s

Family Portrait Photograph
Sepia glass plate family portait photograph circa 1900. Whiteway family group of the Devon cider manufacturers. Date: circa 1900

The Savoy, 1223 Oliver Avenue, Indianapolis. Showing, " Hard Cider", " Atonement", " European War Pictures" and " Beppo" Date: C. 1914

Cider Merchants - Normandy, Northern France
Cider Merchants at a fair in Normandy, Northern France. Date: circa 1910

Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a basket
Christmas card in the shape of a jug in a wickerwork basket. Date: circa 1890s

C18 Apple Orchard
An 18th century apple orchard in Herefordshire, illustrating a poem by John Phillips in praise of cider Date: circa 1710

Autumn in New England: cider making

A woman pouring cider in Normandie, France. Outdoor bar scene

Sweet cider. Date c1890 Nov. 22. Sweet cider. Date c1890 Nov. 22

Billboard advertisements, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
Billboard advertisements at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, for Whiteways Devonshire Cyder and The Royal Navy. circa 1949

The cider cellar, 1850
Men drinking at a pub in the Strand called The Cider Cellar. Date: 1850

Sussex Cider Press
Working the cider press on a farm in Sussex, England Date: 1898

Shooting Apple Trees
In Devonshire, on Twelfth Eve, countryfolk go into the orchards and shoot at one of the best trees, to ensure a good fruit crop : much cider is drunk on this occasion... Date: 1851

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