Ward's Foxearth Brewery Pictures

A collection of old photographs of Ward's Foxearth Brewery

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David Ward, in a rare photograph in around 1912	Bernard Ward, sprouting a beard that made him look even more like his father, undergoing flying training	John Foster looking rather like Dr Zoidberg from futurama	An arial view of the brewery in around 1950	George Foster, who was the drivng force behind the early years of the brewery
Elizabeth Foster, Rev John Foster's second wife	Rev John Foster in late middle-age the way he would have liked to be remembered, a spiritual and asthetic figure	Bernard Ward, an experienced fighter pilot with an MC	David Ward in an official portrait taken after the First World War.for the 1919 Wards Ltd prospectus	The young Harold Ward did not originally intend to take over the brewery, but after his brother Bernard died, he ably stepped in and led the brewery through another generation
Rosalind Foster, John Foster's first wife	John and Rosalind Foster pose awkwardly for the photographer in the rectory garden.	George Foster, the original investor in the Brewery, in a photograph taken when his health was in decline	George Anthony Foster, who worked as a barristerr and businessman, and who teamed up with his brother to fund the brewery in its early days	Georgina Foster, George's wife, and John Foster's sister-in-law
John Foster, when young, had rakish good-looks and this photograph on the old man shows his continuing charisma	Bernard Ward, when an undergraduate doing work-experience at the brewery	The Foxearth Brewery in 1886, with the staff lined up for their portraits	John Bull stands atride England and Wales, but has his toe on Foxearth	The Bear Commercial Hotel in Sudbury was one of Wards' pubs
Bernard Ward, proudly sitting in his plane after landing at Liston Hall	One of the horse-drawn brewery drays, pressed into service as a hay-cart	The Wards' Brewers' dray, around the turn of the 20th Century	This picture purports to show the first Wards' Brewery at Foxearth	A schematic of the layout of the brewery, from memory by Ted Heathcodte
The brewery offices in the early 1920s showing the brewery beyond	A view of the brewery in the early 1920s	Some of the brewery workers enjoying a sunny day in the 1950s	Ward's Halstead office was a short-lived experiment	Brewery workers with some of the last beer to leave the brewery, and it wasn't even brewed there
The Price Of Wales pub in Sudbury. Nobody was left in any doubt as to whether it was a Wards' Pub	Ward's first motorised Dray, which figured in his advertisements	The motorised Drays in the garage at the brewery	Harold Ward was a keen sportsman. and is showing off his horsemanship in this informal snapshot	Wards ended up selling bottled mineral water. The engraving of the glass and bottle on the tray is an awkward later addition to the original artwork
A view of the brewery from around 1912. The group photographs of the staff were generally taken under the awning here	Harold Ward's retirement party - the same day that Taylor Walker announced the takeover deal. Maymee Ward (David Ward's widow is on the extreme right, standing next to David H Ward)	A typical advert in the local paper for Wards beer. this was his Strong Ale, a winter-weight beer, brewed by adding extra cane sugar to the beer	A group photograph of the brewery staff in around 1912	The Brewery Entrance on the Main Road in foxearth, around 1900
The Brewers' house near the front entrance to the brewery	The louvred brewhouse once belonged to the Christmas Brewery at Haverhill. FC Christmas married George Ward's sister Mary.	A curious survival of a brewhouse behind a pub, in this case the Bull in Cavendish	The brewery staff assembled at the Brewery Gates for a group photograph in the 1950s	The deserted Brewery in the 1950s, soon before demolition
A label for Wards Imperial Burton Ale	A label for Pale Ale	Imperial Ale was the favourite beer in the area, and was particularly favoured by Farm Workers	Wards Special Luncheon Stout.	A splendid display of labels for their favourite beers
A wonderful pastiche of armorial devices, from the early twentieth century	The label for Wards Stout declares 'this bottle is a vessel to carry beer, not a measure, but care is taken that it contains not less than the reputed quantity