Ale city : St Albans' beer history and remarkable pubs
Protz, Roger2025
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St Albans is a city rich in history, with its origins in the Iron Age and known as Verulamium following the Roman conquest in AD43. Much of that history is enshrined in its amazing pubs, which include old coaching inns, a pub where soldiers fighting in the Wars of the Roses relaxed with ale, and Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, dating from the seventeenth century and possibly even earlier. Pubs connected to the railway age opened in the nineteenth century and there have been further additions in both the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These include the Farriers Arms, where the longest surviving branch of the Campaign for Real Ale was formed in the 1970s. Today, St Albans has fifty pubs, more per square mile than any other town or city in Britain. Commercial brewing was established in the city during the seventeenth century, with the Kinder family opening the St Albans Brewery on Chequer Street. Their history and that of more recently founded breweries are documented here.
Main title:
Ale city : St Albans' beer history and remarkable pubs / Roger Protz ; photographs by Will Lewis.
Author:
Protz, Roger, authorLewis, Will, photographer (expression)
Imprint:
Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2025.
Collation:
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781398125117 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
647.954258
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
8901374