British Breweries or The Lighthouse Cookbook

British Breweries: An Architectural History

Author: Lynn F Pearson

"I have no pain now, mother dear, But, oh, I am so dry! Connect me to a brewery and leave me there to die."

Breweries were large and striking buildings whose towering presence was often reinforced by their occupation of sites in the middle of towns. They were the flagships of a major industry and generators of some of the great business fortunes. Designing their breweries for architectural grandeur as well as for their function, brewers were well aware of the marketing value of their buildings and used them as advertisements. What is surprising is that so little attention has been paid to breweries, in contrast to other great industrial buildings such as mills and warehouses. Lavishly illustrated, British Breweries covers the whole of their history, from the country house brewhouses of the eighteenth century to the great breweries of Georgian and Victorian England, and to widespread disappearance in the twentieth century.

Table of Contents:

	Illustrations	vii
	Acknowledgments	xi
Part 1
1	Towers of Strength	1
2	Brewing and Building	13
3	A Magnificence Unspeakable	27
4	Function and Style	41
5	Breweries of the 1870s	61
6	The Rise of the Brewers' Architect	77
7	The Ornamental Brewery	101
8	Decline and Fall	121
9	The Brewery in the Twenty-First Century	141
Part 2
	A Directory of Brewers' Architects, 1780-1939	150
	Brewery Construction by Town, 1865-1906	199
	Notes	216
	Glossary	230
	Bibliography	237
	Index	247

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The Lighthouse Cookbook

Author: Anita Stewart

Bestselling cookbook author Anita Stewart presents a delicious selection of recipes from the keepers of British Columbia's lighthouses. From the traditional Clam Chowder and Apple Pie, to such gourmet creations as Mussels in Wild Mushrooms and Jalapeno Jelly, the dishes contradict the myth of rough living and near starvation on the isolated light stations. They are, however, uniformly simple; when food supplies are only available occasionally by helicopter, lighthouse chefs must be inventive about using materials at hand. This produces an emphasis on garden vegetables, wild edible plants and berries, and, of course, BC's prodigious variety of seafood! The recipes are interspersed with fascinating anecdotes of life on the lights.