Thousands of pub images saved from the skip released via photo library

The National Brewery Heritage Trust (NBHT) has made more than 4,400 historic images of 2,000 pubs, part of the East End Brewery Charrington & Co, from across the country available on the Mary Evans image library.

The images were saved from a skip by one of the NBHT director, Robert Humphreys, when the entire collection was on the verge of being dumped after the trust moved offices nearly thirty years ago.

Now the collection, which include images of cost, thatched or weatherboard-clad pubs in country villages to gin palaces in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, are available to license via Mary Evans.

Robert said that the collection brings the history of pubs into people's lives.

He said: "History sometimes seems remote, detached and hard to hold in one's hand. This collection brings history into our own lives. Pubs lie at the heart of their communities, and the people in them are the heart of the pub.

"Following our emotions and instincts in the pursuit of personal understanding through this collection can bring great rewards."

Harry White, NBHT chairman, commented: “This move is in keeping with one of the key objectives of our charity which is to protect and preserve and make available to the public the collection of archives and artefacts of brewing held in the National Brewery Centre in Burton-on-Trent.

"Having launched the National Brewery Centre Archives last year, we 're delighted to extend the reach of the collection further by placing these amazing pub pictures on this well respected image library. Further NBHT image collections will be added to the Mary Evans image library in due course. ”

The Mary Evans Picture Library licences images for commercial use in a range of different media materials.

Prints of these pictures from the Charrington & Co collection are also available to purchase from the NBHT website - https://nationalbreweryheritagetrust.co.uk/shop-window/

Pictured: A photograph of the The Abbey Tavern, in Kentish Town Road, featured in the collec