{"id":602,"date":"2025-10-26T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=602"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:35:57","slug":"03rd-november-2025-not-all-beer-and-skittles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"03rd November 2025 &#8211; Not all Beer and skittles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center add-remove-bottom-space has-larger-font-size\" style=\"text-transform:none\">Not all Beer and Skittles<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center add-remove-bottom-space has-large-font-size\" style=\"text-transform:none\">Speaker: Sue Ellis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center add-remove-bottom-space\">Monday 3rd November 2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">(Doors open from 7:00pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Beer-and-Bar.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Beer-and-Bar.png 340w, https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Beer-and-Bar-249x300.png 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The British love their pubs and history suggests our enjoyment of beer and brewing is long-standing. This talk is a gentle, and hopefully amusing, ramble through the history of brewing, beer, breweries and pubs from the Romans to the present day, with some examples of pubs and breweries from the local area, as well as a look at pub ephemera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sue Ellis is a local historian in the Thatcham and Newbury area who has taken the idea of hands-on research seriously in researching this talk and consequently has felt constrained to visit many of the pubs she mentions!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center add-remove-bottom-space\">Bradfield Cricket Club Pavilion,<br> Heath Road, Bradfield Southend, RG7 6HH<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">(Car Parking Available)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">There is no entry fee, but a donation of \u00a34 per person towards expenses would be appreciated. No advance booking required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Organised by Professor Martin Parsons, Dorcas Ward, Bob Lyon, Chris Curry, Barnaby Bucknall and Gordon Patterson. For further information, contact Gordon on 07764 476361 or <a href=\"mailto:gnpatterson@btconnect.com\">gnpatterson@btconnect.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all Beer and Skittles Speaker: Sue Ellis Monday 3rd November 2025 (Doors open from 7:00pm) The British love their pubs and history suggests our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastevent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Beer-and-Bar.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}