THE BIGGER PICTURE. Links to images and research elsewhere

We've been sent some really interesting online material 
lately. My good friend - yours too, probably - Roger Baker has put together this  page for the Industrial History of Cumbria site.  After you've read this it well worth going to the home page and looking at the amount of material relating to industry from around the county. I just had a look at some beautiful photographs of Prince Of Wales Dock at Workington and the Bobbin Mill at Stott Park in 1967. The site is a marvellous resource with a sense of the value of the small details in telling a big story.

 https://www.cumbria-industries.org.uk/hartleys-brewery-ulverston/
Roger has also provided some copies of the Brewery History journal from the 1990's, these have some detailed accounts of life with Hartleys and some photos of the workforce.  I'm scanning them today, so theyll be up soon.


Ken Smith of the Brewery History Society was very helpful when we were setting this project up and gave us the ok to use anything on thier site, and that's where the 1986 photo here  came from.

 The Brewery History Soc Site is another bottomless glass of a thing; just look at the county index on the Brewerypedia  page and you get some idea of the scope. As with the Industrial History site, you'll need a packed lunch if you're going to explore it properly. 
Start here:

http ://breweryhistory.com/

 Thanks Roger, thanks Ken.



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  1. Unknown22 April 2020 at 03:43

    Really enjoyed this, thank you. Going to spend some time looking at these links this afternoon

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