Beer Collection

A production still image from Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
Harry Andrews, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms and John Mills in scene from Jack Lee Thompsons classic war title Ice Cold in Alex

HOGARTH: GIN LANE. Beer Street and Gin Lane. Steel engraving, c1860, after the original by William Hogarth (1697-1764)

HOGARTH: BEER STREET. Beer Street and Gin Lane. Steel engraving, c1860, after the original by William Hogarth

Hogarth, Beer Street. A political print supporting a ministerial measure against the unlimited sale of gin. A scene of London life in which happy and healthy tradesmen

John Mills in Ice Cold In Alex (1958)
A portrait of John Mills as Captain Anson from Jack Lee Thompsons classic war film Ice Cold In Alex

Formula One Championship, Rd 15, United States Grand Prix East, Watkins Glen, USA, 2 October 1977
James Hunt (GBR) celebrates his win in Victory Lane with his McLaren M26, a cigarette, a beer, and a Penthouse Pet. Formula One Championship, Rd 15, United States Grand Prix East, Watkins Glen, USA

Queen Mother drinks a pint of beer in a pub in Stepney

Dylan Thomas Drinking & Smoking
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953) drinking a glass of beer and smoking while seated at a desk with stacks of his books of poetry, New York City, c. 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Huggins Beer advert
Bottle of Huggins Light Dinner Ale Beer, advert 1908 Date: 1908

Harrys New York bar in Paris. Patrons attempting to break the world record for drinking two litres of beer in seventeen seconds. C. 1947

Athlone and River Shannon, County Westmeath, Ireland
Athlone and River Shannon, County Westmeath, Republic of Ireland, showing the Church of Saints Peter and Paul. circa 1970s

Dundalk, County Louth, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Coopers at work making wooden barrels
Four coopers hard at work in their workshop making traditional wooden barrels. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

Slea Head Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry Ireland

Europe, Ireland, Dublin. Exterior of Brazen Head pub, established in 1198 AD. Credit as
Ireland, Dublin. Exterior of Brazen Head pub, established in 1198 AD. Credit as: Dennis Flaherty / Jaynes Gallery / DanitaDelimont(RF)

Boats on the beach, Beer, Devon, England, UK

Blue Dress / Beer 1922
Blue dress by Beer: low neckline, open to the hips at the side & worn over a grey slip. Bodice & low waistband decorated in a feather motif plus a bandeau & earrings

Cheeseburger and chips. Processed foods, such as found, in a cheeseburger are usually low in fibre and high in fats. Too much fatty food in the diet is associated with health risks

Westvleteren Trappist beer at the abbey in Saint Sixtus, enjoying local beer, near Poperinge, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe

Spaten Brau Publicity 2
A waitress brings four seidels of frothy Spaten-Brau

Old beer poster, Plzen, West Bohemia, Czech Republic, Europe

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax. Alexander Keiths Nova Scotia Brewery. Barrels of Keiths India Pale Ale. (Editorial Usage Only)

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

Rejected by the Inventions Board IX - Heath Robinson
The Pilsener Pump for tapping the enemys beer; another hilariously convoluted contraption to foil the enemy during World War I from William Heath Robinson

Shirland Road, Maida Vale, London, with the Shirland Hotel (pub, now the Truscott Arms) on the left. Date: circa 1910

Bantry Town and Bantry Bay, West Cork, Republic of Ireland

Courtown Harbour and Beach, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland

Helvick Head, Dungarvan, County Waterford, Republic of Ireland

John Mills Basil Hoskins and Anthony Quayle
in a scene from Ice Cold In Alex (1957)

Advert, Gaskell & Chambers Ltd, Bar Fitters
Advert for Gaskell & Chambers Ltd (incorporated with Yates & Greenways), Bar Fitters, Manufacturers of Beer Engines and Hotel Bar Requisites, Counters, Back Fittings, Seating

Replica Samuel Adams beer barrel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
USA, Massachusetts, Boston, Replica Samuel Adams beer barrel

Gravestone in the Graveyard of Winchester Cathedral
Gravestone of Thomas Thetcher, a Grenadier in the North Regiment of the Hampshire Militia who died of a violent fever contracted by drinking Small Beer when hot on 12th May 1764

Seapoint Ballroom and Restaurant, Salthill, Galway, Ireland
Seapoint Ballroom and Restaurant, Salthill, Galway, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Castletownbere, Beara Peninsula, Republic of Ireland

The River Suir at Clonmel, County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland

Old man in Stoke pub -1
An elderly man sits in the bar of a working class pub in Staffordshire. He has a half pint of mild ale. It is early doors and there is a portrait of the Queen on the wall - 1 Date: 1987

Down to the Dregs, 1880 (c1902)
Down to the Dregs, 1880, (c1902). Artist, John Seymour Lucas. A man in 17th century dress drains a tankard of beer. From The Nations Pictures

Gin Lane (Beer Street and Gin Lane 2), 1751. Artist: Hogarth, William (1697-1764)
Gin Lane (Beer Street and Gin Lane 2), 1751. From a private collection

A Memory of a Hop Field by F. C. Twort
A bucolic scene showing hop pickers in a Kentish landscape. Date: 1935

Aerial view of the beach and cliffs at Beer, East Devon. Date: 1960s

Whitbreads Pale Ale
WHITBREADs PALE ALE Fashionable people on a luxury cruiser enjoy a glass of beer

Advert / Whitbread Pale A
WHITBREADs PALE ALE ashore or afloat, the best summer beverage

Munich Bierkeller C1905
The Hofbrauhaus-Saal, Munchen

Hop Picking into Bins
Kent hop pickers picking into bins

George Inn, Botley CC97_02370
GEORGE INN, Botley, Oxfordshire. View from Seacourt Stream showing a group outside the George Inn in 1892. Henry Taunt

John Bull taking Luncheon or British Cooks cramming Old Grumble Gizzard with Bonne Chere
2966820 John Bull taking Luncheon or British Cooks cramming Old Grumble Gizzard with Bonne Chere, pub 1798 (hand coloured engraving) by Gillray

The Village, Branscombe, Devon
The Village, Branscombe, Seaton, near Beer, Devon, England. Date: 1900s

Horse-drawn cart for Trumans Brewery in Ashford, Kent
Delightful horse-drawn cart for Trumans Brewery in Ashford, Kent. Trumans Brewery (founded in 1666) of Brick Lane in the Spitalfields area of London eventually closed in 1989. Date: circa 1910s

Beer Street
Engraving By William Hogarth celebrating the virtues of beer circa 1751. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images)

Notting Hill Brewery English bottled beers advert 1899 Date: 1899

Bass Brewery workers
Workers at the Middle Yard of the Bass Brewery, Burton-on-Trent Date: 1908

Silhouette of a local squire and his dog
Silhouette of a local squire having a drink in his local pub, with his dog at his feet. An advertisement for Worthington beer

Hop Picking in Kent - Boughton District Date: 1907

BEER AD BY MUCHA, c1897. French lithograph advertising poster, c1897, by Alphonse Mucha for Bieres de la Meuse

Tanzania, Serengeti. Its Kili time! - Chilled Kilimanjaro beer
Tanzania, Serengeti. " Its Kili time!" - Chilled Kilimanjaro beer and a parafin lantern

Beer steins in Andechs beer garden, brewed in the monastery, Andechs, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Bonar Colleano, Pat Kirkwood and Nat Jackley in Maurice Elveys Stars in Your Eyes (1956)
Stars in Your Eyes (1956)

Richard Massingham in Michael Laws What A Life! (1948)

Beach and cliffs, Beer, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Three Women Drinking
Three happy women enjoy an alchoholic drink; one has a beer, one a glass of wine, and one spirits

In a Theatre Box
In a box at the Opera Comique, Paris, their evening dresses by Molyneux (2), Beer and Premet can hardly be seen : but when the interval comes, things will be different

Beer Street, 1751. Artist: William Hogarth
Beer Street, 1751. Working people enjoying a tankard of beer outside the Barley Mow public house. The figures include two women with baskets of fish and a butcher holding a joint of meat

Cheery Families - Mr Butt the Brewer. 1890s

Fishing boats on the shingle beach at Beer, East Devon. Date: 1960s

Men playing shove-halfpenny in Hollist Arms, Lodsworth with barman looking on. c1934 George Garland Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: Garland N10280

Bass Brewery Mash-tub
Clearing King Edwards Mash-tub of Spent Grain at Basss Brewery, Burton-on-Trent. Edward VII had visited the Brewery in February 1902

Silhouette of a landlord and his dog
Silhouette of a pub landlord with a glass of beer in his hand, his dog sitting at his feet. An advertisement for Worthington beer

Silhouette of a doctor who has interrupted his rounds for a glass of beer. An advertisement for Worthington beer

Silhouette of men in a pub
The Lads of the Village -- silhouette of men enjoying a drink of beer in their local pub. An advertisement for Worthington beer

Silhouette of a head waiter with a full glass of beer in his hand, and a cat at his feet. An advertisement for Worthington beer

Silhouette of a waitress or pub barmaid, about to pour beer into a glass. An advertisement for Worthington beer

Silhouette of barmaid and customer in a pub
The best drink is the last drink -- scene at 10pm in The Crown, Harrogate, with a barmaid, a customer and his dog

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

Advert / Masons Herb / Beer
Masons Extract of Herbs for making sparkling and delicious herb beer

Advert for Whitbread Pale Ale
WHITBREADs PALE ALE featuring Gertrude Lawrence and Douglas Fairbanks Jnr at Grosvenor House

Hogarth Rake Plate 7
The Rakes Progress 7. Scene in the Fleet prison

Wrought iron sign advertising Paulaner and Lowenbrau beer, Wolfrathausen, near Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Barclays Lager Advert
Barclays London Lager

Advert / Mackesons Stout
MACKESONs STOUT Milk stout

Champion Beer Drinker
A German champion beer drinker downs a huge tankard of beer!

Pilgrim Fathers First Christmas 1621
A man fills a tankard of beer from a small keg, as various men sit or stand around drinking. Date: 1621

Fore Street, Beer, Devon
Fore Street, Beer, near Seaton, Devon, England. Showing a Bullnose Morris Vintage Car Date: 1920s

Barclays London Lager advertisement with tennis
Advertisement for Barclays London Lager, showing two refreshing looking glasses ready and waiting for some tennis players who can be seen on a grass court in the distance. Date: 1928

Ireland, County Mayo, Westport, Guiness kegs

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Cheers to the timeless allure of beer. 🍻 From the iconic production still image of Ice Cold In Alex (1958) to Hogarth's captivating Beer Street, this beloved beverage has left its mark throughout history. Just like John Mills in Ice Cold In Alex, we raise our glasses to celebrate the artistry and craftsmanship behind brewing. HOGARTH: GIN LANE takes us back to a bygone era where beer played a significant role in society, while Huggins Beer advert reminds us of the enduring popularity of this drink. Dylan Thomas knew how to enjoy life with a pint in hand, as depicted in his Drinking & Smoking portrait. Behind every great a team of dedicated coopers crafting wooden barrels with precision and care. Whether it's enjoying a cold one by Athlone and River Shannon or Dundalk in County Louth, Republic of Ireland, beer brings people together across borders and cultures. Even Formula One drivers celebrated their victories at United States Grand Prix East with an ice-cold brew on that memorable day in 1977. And let's not forget Dublin's Brazen Head pub – established way back in 1198 AD – standing as a testament to the lasting legacy culture. So next time you savor your favorite brew, take a moment to appreciate its rich history and the joy it brings.