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

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

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.

The Horse and Harness pub advertises Huntingdon Ales. Horses were important, particularly for ploughing the fens after they were drained.

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

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

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

The Red Lion can now be seen to sell Tennant's Ales. Originally based in Sheffield, they were taken over by Whitbread's and the site is now closed.

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.

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.

This ferry leaves from the Ferry Inn, where the passengers from this coach are probably still enjoying their Guinness or local ale.

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

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.

The Prince of Wales Hotel is advertising Soame ales.

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.

The Old Crown Inn is seen here in the days when it sold ales brewed by Lascelles, Tickner & Co, of Guildford.

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

The Angel Inn, on the left, advertising Clinches Witney Ales, dates back to the 17th century. Architecture in the town is predominantly Georgian.

The Witterings are seaside villages of bungalows, chalets and caravans on the Selsey peninsula, a flat area south of Chichester. The Norman church of the Assumption was rebuilt in 1875.

The origins of this rambling building, which overlooks the main street, lie in a 15th-century farmhouse, and until the New Inn was built in the 1640s, it also served the village as its ale-house.

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.

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

The last building is the Swan, a pub since 1538, run by John Fuller, who sold Morse's ales and stouts.

The New Inn, shown here, was favoured by rural workers who would come to sample Mr Weaver's famous ales.