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Caption For Stourbridge, Lower High Street C1960

In those days it was Fosters for clothes and the Corner Shop for wines, spirits, Butler's Ales, and the dreaded Armadillo sherry.

Caption For Stone, Bents Brewery 1900

Other than Burton, brewing in Staffordshire received a shot in the arm with the opening in 1992 of the Lichfield Brewery, which produces such delights as Resurrection Ale and Xpired.

Caption For Fontmell Magna, The Crown Inn C1955

The Crown Inn, seen here, offers the locally-brewed Badger Ales.

Caption For Longworth, Tucks Lane C1965

Further down Tuck's Lane, on the right, is the Blue Boar public house, selling Morrell's ales.

Caption For Willingham, The Black Bull C1955

This public house has changed very little - the white boarding is now black, and the poster for Greene King Harvest Brown Ale has gone.

Caption For Winchester, Church Of St Cross 1919

An interesting view of the church of St Cross from the porter's lodge, where a visitor can be seen receiving the traditional 'Wayfarer's Dole' of bread and ale.

Caption For Chester, Bridge Street, The Bear And Billet Inn 1888

By 1895 Worthingtons pale and Burton ales were brewed at Burton-upon-Trent; William Worthington had opened his brewery there in 1760 some seventeen years before William Bass.

Caption For Swansea, The General And Eye Hospital 1893

Note the tram advertising Miller & Co's ales and stout, the overhead power cables to power it and the tramlines on which it ran - all of which have now disappeared.

Caption For Chesterfield, Knifesmithgate C1960

On the right the King's Head has changed from Brampton Ales to Warwicks.

Caption For Ickleford, The Village 1903

On the extreme left is The Green Man, serving Benskin's Ales.

Caption For Purbrook, The White Hart C1960

They brewed Sunshine IPA, Pompey XXXXX Dark Ale, and Admiral Stout.

Caption For Bakewell, Rutland Square C1955

The Red Lion can now be seen to sell Tennant's Ales.

Caption For East Wittering, Church Road Corner C1950

The Witterings are seaside villages of bungalows, chalets and caravans on the Selsey peninsula, a flat area south of Chichester.

Caption For Bicester, Church Street C1955

Here we are looking along Church Street towards the 13th-century tower of St Eadburg's Church.

Caption For Witney, The Market Place C1950

The Angel Inn, on the left, advertising Clinches Witney Ales, dates back to the 17th century.

Caption For Cardiff, St Mary Street 1893

The road is unsurfaced, but the tramlines are clearly visible - there is a tram in the distance.

Caption For Blisworth, Village C1955

Phipps ales and stout and wines and spirits can just be seen advertised on either side of the main door of the thatched Royal Oak in Blisworth.

Caption For Warlingham, Harrow Inn 1904

The Croydon brewery of Nalder & Collyer sold its ales at a rural-looking Harrow Inn 100 years ago.

Caption For Stanwick, The Duke Of Wellington C1965

Particularly poignant is the barrel over the inn sign, a reminder of Watneys Red Barrel - a truly awful keg beer that almost singlehandedly led to the Campaign for Real Ale.