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Hops and holidays
Week 8 A blast from the past this week as I have been getting down to serious picture research, firstly going through my own collection of brewery-related imagery. My old 35mm slides were a bit of a disappointment (although these would probably reproduce least well in any case) as most of them were taken when … Read more
The mystery of the en rule
Week 7 This week I have been laying the foundations of the brewing book, that is setting up all the files and so on correctly. Sounds dull (it is, though also essential) but it means that when I come to start writing, I don’t have to think about publisher’s house style, it is all set … Read more
And so to Bury
Week 6 Really this continues the photo story from last week, as here are a few of my Greene King Brewery pics from Bury St Edmunds. The sun chose to shine very briefly, just long enough for a handsome shot of the interwar brewhouse. This week I’ve been in Stoke-on-Trent, where the Potteries Museum and … Read more
Anchored in Norwich
Week 5 Out and about in Norwich and Bury St Edmunds this week, taking photos of a couple of former brewery sites in the former, and of course Greene King in the latter. Sadly not time enough for a brewery tour – hope to do that in the nearish future – but at least had long enough … Read more
Oh to be in Southwold!
Week 4 This week am off to Norwich, to take photos of what’s left of Bullard’s Anchor Brewery. Sadly its tall black chimney has gone – used to park nearby when on days out in Norwich as a kid, it was a real landmark. However the plaque from its base survives, built into the new … Read more
The lion of Hartlepool
Week 3 Last weekend made a quick trip out to Hartlepool, to see and photograph the exterior of Cameron’s Lion Brewery. Lovely sunshine but bitterly cold. The only listed part of the brewery is one of three lions decorating the railings to the east of the brewery itself. He (it is definitely a chap) was … Read more
Beer and cricket
Week 2 Consolidation, followed by an interruption in the form of a request to write an article on cricket pavilions for a conservation journal. So am briefly concentrating on cricket before being submerged in beer again shortly. Of course, cricket and beer do go together historically - after all, it is not so long ago (relatively) … Read more
So much for Week One
It’s the end of the first week of real work on the book, and although I’m still at the ‘sorting-out-old-stuff’ stage, I’m starting to think about aspects of the book, for instance the inclusion of one or more town trails – Burton obviously, maybe Newark, maybe former sites in London, you get the idea. So … Read more
Getting started
Actually, the worst bit of writing a book has already been done, the synopsis – they are always excruciating. But on the plus side, if you get them right, then all you have to do is follow your own instructions, as it were, and out comes a book. (Simples.) So I’m just at the stage … Read more
Arkells in May
Last time I went to English Heritage’s archives in Swindon, I had a chance to get the bus out to Arkells Brewery – it was May, it was sunny, just how a brewery should look. Enjoy!
