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    A Pub on Every Corner?: Drink and the Licensed Trade in Nineteenth-Century Berwick-upon-Tweed
    A Pub on Every Corner?: Drink and the Licensed Trade in Nineteenth-Century Berwick-upon-Tweed
    A Pub on Every Corner?: Drink and the Licensed Trade in Nineteenth-Century Berwick-upon-Tweed
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    A Pub on Every Corner?: Drink and the Licensed Trade in Nineteenth-Century Berwick-upon-Tweed

    By Wendy Bell Scott

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    Insights into the social history of the border town of Berwick upon Tweed, viewed through the developments of the licensed trade and the changes in the laws affecting it,during the nineteenth-century.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlue Button Publications
    Release dateMar 14, 2012
    ISBN9781476487489
    A Pub on Every Corner?: Drink and the Licensed Trade in Nineteenth-Century Berwick-upon-Tweed
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    Wendy Bell Scott

    Wendy Bell Scott was born in Ripon, Yorkshire and moved to North-Northumberland with her family while in her teens. At various times she has been a private music teacher, run her own craft business and taught history and creative writing to adults. She has been writing since the late 1970s, ranging through songs, non-fiction articles, a film script, plays, sketches, short stories, and two part-written novels. Wendy has been researching local and family history for many years and gained an Open University degree in Humanities with History in 2003. She has one son and also brought up her niece and nephew, all of whom are now adults.

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      A Pub on Every Corner? - Wendy Bell Scott

      A Pub

      on

      Every Corner?

      Drink and the Licensed Trade

      in Nineteenth-Century

      Berwick upon Tweed

      Wendy Bell Scott

      A Blue Button Publication

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 Wendy Bell Scott and Blue Button Publications.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      of this author.

      Publishing History

      Chapters 1-4 first published as articles

      in the Berwick Advertiser in 1999

      Book first Published in print

      in Great Britain in 2009

      by Blue Button Publications,

      Print version ISBN 978-1-907131-20-2

      Cover design by Bluebell.

      Editing and Layout by Bluebell.

      Figure 1 The Black Bull, Silver Street and the Peacock, Sandgate, Berwick

      Contents

      Chapter 1 Drinking in Berwick in the Early 19th Century.

      Chapter 2 Did Living Conditions Drive People to Drink?

      Chapter 3 A Time of Great Change in Berwick.

      Chapter 4 Cleaning up the Town.

      Chapter 5 New Regulations for the Licensed Trade.

      Chapter 6 New Understanding of Drunkenness.

      Chapter 7 The Battle for Sober Sundays.

      Chapter 8 The Approach to a New Century.

      Appendix Sunday Drunkenness in the North.

      About the Author

      Other Books from Blue Button Publications.

      Illustrations

      The Black Bull, Silver Street and The Peacock, Sandgate, Berwick.

      The High Street and Scotsgate

      Sandgate and Hide Hill

      Anglers’ Cottage, Castlegate

      The original Berwick Railway Station

      Ship Inn, Sandgate

      An earlier view of the Brown Bear, Hide Hill

      The Pack Horse, Church Street

      Bridge End with Alderman Christison’s licensed grocery shop on the corner with Bridge Street.

      Back to Contents

      Figure 2 The High Street and Scotsgate, Berwick

      Chapter One

      Drinking in Berwick

      in the Early 19th Century

      In 1806, it was estimated that over £30,000 was being spent on alcohol each year in the town of Berwick. This was according to Good’s Directory of that year. While trade directories are known to be rather inaccurate at times it does indicate that an incredible amount of alcohol was being consumed in Berwick around that date.

      In 1799, beer was being sold at 4d a quart (two pints) and as prices didn’t rise very often in those days, so it was more than likely still about the same price in 1806. Converted into today’s money, a pint would be 1p. This means that if £30,000 was all spent on beer, it would buy more than three and a half million pints!

      Of course it wasn’t all spent on beer, spirits were also included, but it’s an interesting idea!

      Good’s Directory also states that there were 66 pubs in Berwick (although for some reason it only appears to list 65). There were also two Common Brewers (this was the term for commercial brewers), two Porter Merchants, four Porter, Wine and Spirit Merchants and four Wine and Spirit Merchants.

      The population of Berwick in 1801 was about 7245, which

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