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Download or read book British Breweries written by Lynn Pearson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the history of the architecture of breweries, this account ranges from the country house brewhouse of the 18th century to the great breweries of Georgian and Victorian England, which reached their ornate peak in the 1880s and 1890s. It deals with the practical considerations that brewers' architects and engineers had to take into account, as well as the architectural styles and the decorative features employed. The author has also included a gazetteer of brewery architecture.