Heritage Calls
I’ve just added a post to the English Heritage blog Heritage Calling, all about beer and the church. This week’s photo is a postcard view of Palmers Brewery in Bridport, probably dating from the early 1900s. Curious structures in front of the water wheel.
Built to Brew page layouts arrive!
Into my inbox last night dropped a pdf file with the complete page layout for the book – very much a wow moment as it looks wonderful. No doubt a few tweaks will be necessary here and there, but it is great to see the result of all the picture research and writing in one … Continue reading
That really is a microbrewery!
Week 65 And a momentous week it is too – well, for me anyway. The text of the book was completed at 9.05am on Friday 29th March 2013. Of course, there is a lot more to a book than just text, but text is the one thing you can’t do without. It will be altered … Continue reading
Down in Dorchester
Week 64 It was really interesting to see what was going on at the former Eldridge Pope Dorchester Brewery – would have been good to have a sunnier day for photos, but at least it was mellow mistiness rather than pouring rain, typical Hardy Country weather. There’s a lot of information available online about the … Continue reading
A mysterious window in Bridport
Week 63 Back from trip to wet Wessex with hundreds of photos, despite what did indeed turn out to be a pretty damp few days in Hardy (the author not the brewers…) country, but with misty low clouds rather than pouring rain so photography was just about possible. Dorset itself was delightful – turned out … Continue reading
Demolition days
Week 62 While looking back through my slides this week came across these images of Wethered’s Brewery at Marlow being demolished, probably taken about 1990. The brewhouse and some other structures remained, and were turned into residential accomodation, the flats in the brewhouse tower being the most expensive, with a view across town and Thames. Had … Continue reading
Built for Brewing 