You agree that  the  Eagle  is very  convenient  at Harvest Time
and within easy reach ?

Supt: Yes, it is
Mr Ashton, addressing the bench said that if the full facts had

been known at the Licensing Sessions, the present case should
not have been brought before them.

 The Chairman of the Bench, William Hervey, briefly reviewed
the  evidence  given  and  said  that  it  would  be  a  pleasure  to

renew  the  licence.  The  main  point  was  that  the  Eagle  was
doing a good trade, and was required to meet the demands of
the neighbourhood.

Despite this reduction in the market, the company
survived the hard times, beating the critics who had
predicted the brewery would be a casualty of the downturn.

That year, Ward’s paid a total of £4442. 6s beer duty on
12, 370 barrels brewed (a barrel equals 36 imperial gallons)
and £4577 10 s and 9d duty on the next year’s 12, 795
barrels brewed. Is it any wonder times were hard.

The brewery in 1912

Three years later in April 1911, at the International
Exhibition of Hygiene in Paris, the company pulled off a
remarkable coup in British brewing history by becoming
only the second UK brewery to win the Grand Prix and
Gold Medal with Diploma for their Imperial Pale Ale and
Oatmeal Stout.

Part of the victory was due to a chemist named Harold
Heron who had devised a composition that was added to
the brewing liquor. Although various chemicals were being
added to the water or wort around or before the turn of the
century, Heron updated a chemical water treatment that
would improve on those already in use for heavy beers such
as stout and pale ale. His blueprint, which included
sulphate of lime; chloride of lime; chloride of magnesium
and salt, laid the way for brewing riches.

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