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Obviously Cantrell and Cochrane the lemonade manufacturers?????

Swordscookie Couldn't be anyone else ;-). Pity there's no "like" button for comments in Flickr.

Hmmm. Assuming these lemonade vats are approx. the same size as the largest Guinness ones, that means a British Army strength of about 290 000 men.

If it's of any help, I have a copy of this book published by Guinness's in 1928 in which this picture and most of Mason's Guinness photographs in the NLI collection are seen. The title under this one is " A corner of No.11 Vat House". "Storage Vats. The Stout having been separated as much as possible from its yeast is then run into large measuring tanks, whence it is pumped into huge vats and stored for various periods according to its quality and the market for which it is intended. The longest storage is given to the foreign Extra Stout, as this is designed for bottling for hot climates and has to be fully matured before exportation. The largest vats are capable of holding about 90,000gallons. Largest Vat Capacity St.James gate........... 90,324 Gallons. Total Vat Capacity St.James gate...........14,782,560 Gallons If it was a commission I'd imagine Mason took them not too long beforehand, possibly 1926/7 ?.. but with the reference to the British army they could well have been reproduced from earlier publications....there seems to have been a few.

You can apparently get a hardwood floor made from these vats.

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enough to make you feel sick!
unfortunate application of family name

Heh. Not unfortunate at all. Western society is highly contrive and overtly polished; it's a beautiful thing the family name was used before the suits could suggest a "Branding" change.

Simpler times. Gotta love 'em.

Slayer espresso builds machines in their old brewery in Seattle.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Beer and Booze: A Damn Fine Product [VINTAGE], and we'd love to have this added to the group!

"While trying to assemble a list of names & dates of Cordial Manufacturers in Maryborough, we seem to have uncovered yet another "Maryborough Myth". The History of Maryborough, editions 1976 & 1996, state that J.R.Mansfield established the first Cordial Factory in Maryborough in 1859. However, Mansfield's name was Samuel, born about 1841 in Essex, arrived in Melbourne in 1862 & worked in the gold fields in Victoria, before coming to Gympie in 1867 for the gold rush there. The "Chronicle" reported on 2 Sept 1869 that he had taken over the factory of his brother-in-law George Sutton. The Mansfield family remained in business for 3 generations, & were still operating in the 1970s. Can anyone tell us the exact date they closed? Any information & photos on any of the Cordial makers would be appreciated. So far we have 20 different firms, & there could be more." Source: www.facebook.com/maryboroughfamilyhistory/posts/while-try...