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An 'Assize of Ale' for the town of Swansea, 1791, page 1 of 5
  • The ale muller was a special warming device used to mull ale or wine in cold weather.
Ale muller, late 19th century
  • Country families in Wales often bought port in barrels from Bristol and bottled it. The bottles bore their name and frequently the date of the vintage. The example shown here is of a bottle inscribed
Sealed wine bottle, Bridgend, 1808
  • This is a volume of recipes, herbal remedies and household hints, compiled during the mid-nineteenth century (c.1845) and owned by Lady de Rutzen of Slebech Hall (near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire). It contains an interesting assortment of recipes, including 'calves feet jelly', 'hare soup', goosebery wine and the intriguingly-named 'Staffordshire Yeomanry Pudding'. The herbal remedies include cures for 'corns', 'gnat bites' and 'sea sickness' as well as a medicine which was believed to alleviate whooping cough. Among the 'household hints' we find advice on the cleaning and varnishing of pictures, how 'to take spots out of Marble', how to 'prevent water penetrating boots or shoes', as well as recipes for homemade soap and the removal of iron mould from linen. Prior to the advent of modern, manufactured products, housekeepers and housewives had to devise their own cleaning agents, often using 'recipes', such as these, which had been handed down through the generations.
Recipe Book owned by Lady de Rutzen, Slebech Hall, c.1845 [image 1 of 31]
  • In this report it is noted with satisfaction that: 'no woman came before the Courts during the year on a charge of drunkenness'. 'This', the Superintendent says, 'is unprecedented in the Dinas Powis Division'. The report goes on to note 'that twenty years ago, in the year immediately preceding the War, no fewer than 77 women were convicted for drunkenness throughout the same area.'
Review of a police report on the levels of drunkenness in the Dinas Powys area, 1935 [page 1 of 3]
  • The Buckley Brewery was originally founded in Llanelli in the late 18th century by Henry Child. On his death in 1824, the brewery passed to his son-in-law, James Buckley, and remained in the hands of the Buckley family throughout the nineteenth century. The business expanded rapidly during the latter half of the century and by the early twentieth century it was the largest brewery in west Wales. Brewing came to an end at Buckleys in 1998 when the company was bought by S. A. Brain & Co. Ltd. and production was transferred to Cardiff.
Items from Llanelli breweries