The British Malting Industry Since 1830Malt is the main ingredient in the national beverage, beer. For centuries the malting industry has provided a principal bridge between agriculture and the brewing industry, yet its history has been little studied. The British Malting Industry since 1830 is the first overall account of malting, dealing with the processes, products and sales, owners and employees, and with the evolution of what in 1830 were almost all small, local businesses. Christine Clark traces the influence of the growing demand for beer in Victorian England, and of the increasing power of the large breweries, on the malt industry. Maltsters often saw themselves as the poor cousins of brewers, with whom they had an intimate but ultimately dependent relationship, yet the fortunes left by leading maltsters shows the opportunities the industry offered to those able to benefit from technical innovations and the arrival of the railways. The history of malting in this century has been one of the concentration of many small businesses into a few large ones, such as Pauls and ABM. The industry provides a good example of the benefits and limitations, so typical of British industry, of family ownership. The modern malt industry has survived a series of crises and powerful foreign competition to become a significant exporter. |
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Pauls cricket team 1906 | 19 |
Sir William Gilstrap 181696 entertaining the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York at Fornham Park in 1895 | 20 |
Gate Burton Hall Lincolnshire purchased by John Drysdale Sandars in 1906 | 21 |
Ploughing off green malt from a Saladin box prior to kilning at Hutchisons Kirkcaldy malting in the 1950s | 22 |
ABM Louth completed in 1952 the first postwar mechanical maltings to be built in the | 23 |
Mark Lane corn market the headquarters of the national grain trade in 1897 | 24 |
BerwickuponTweed corn exchange in the 1920s | 25 |
The laboratory at the Mirfield firm of Edward Sutcliffe Limited in the 1920s | 26 |
Loading a 900 tonne coaster with malt for Germany at Ipswich maltings on the Wet Dock in the 1990s | 38 |
The old Ware early in the twentieth century | 39 |
The new A germination plant in Pauls Bury St Edmunds | 40 |
Maltings | 42 |
The Free Mash Tun 18801914 | 65 |
Entrepreneurs and Companies 18301914 | 89 |
Costs Prices and Profits 18301914 | 117 |
War and Depression 191445 | 137 |
Women loading malt at Gilstrap Earps Newark maltings during the Second World | 27 |
Charles Sutcliffe Edward Sutcliffe | 28 |
Frederick Cooke W J Robson Company | 29 |
Hubert CherryDownes Gilstrap Earp | 30 |
S Harold Thompson Samuel Thompson Sons | 31 |
John F Crisp John Crisp Son | 32 |
Jock Causton 190587 | 35 |
George Paul a member of the fifth generation of the family to be involved in malting | 36 |
Pauls first bulk lorry | 37 |
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accounted Alfred Gough Associated British Maltsters barrels Bass Beccles beer output brewers Brewery Company Brewing Industry Brewing Trade Review British Brewing Industry British malting Burton Bury St Edmunds Canada Malting Company capacity capital Ceased trading cent century chairman Cherry-Downes commission costs December demand for malt distilling dividends duty excise Fison floor maltings Gilstrap Earp Gourvish and Wilson grain Guinness Hugh Baird important increased Ipswich John Sandars Journal kiln Kirkcaldy labour Lee & Grinling licences Limited Lincolnshire London MAGB maize Malt Tax malt trade malting barley Malting Company malting industry maltsters managing director merger million quarters Mirfield Moray Firth Munton Newark Norfolk ordinary shares Pauls & Whites Pauls Malt Pidcock production profits purchased quarters of malt Robert Hutchison Ryburgh Saladin sales-maltsters Sandars Sandars & Company sectors Select Committee Similarly steeping Stowmarket subsequently Suffolk Sutcliffe Swonnell Taylor Thousand Thousand Thousand tonnes Trumans William
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