A pint of old Hooky, from the Hook Norton Brewery, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX15 5NY

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Contributor:
Tony SmithImage ID:
2JPB8TFFile size:
48.4 MB (1.7 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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3462 x 4890 px | 29.3 x 41.4 cm | 11.5 x 16.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
30 July 2022Location:
Brewery Ln, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX15 5NYMore information:
. This scene at Brewery Ln, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX15 5NY in 2022 forms part of the visual history of the locality, documenting the named subject together with aspects of how the area looked and functioned at the time. The subject captured here is A pint of old Hooky, from the Hook Norton Brewery, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX15 5NY. The wider scene also brings together industrial beverage equipment, beverage production, factory bottling line, Herefordshire cider tradition, everyday life, place identity, local history, period detail, orchard-to-bottle industry, cider-making heritage, community identity, historic beverage advertising, bottling technology, and social history. For current editorial use, tourism and regional food heritage provide additional context, especially through how bottling technology transformed large-scale drinks manufacturing. The archival value lies partly in recording public access and movement around Brewery Ln, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX15 5NY before changing commercial priorities alters the character of the place. Other useful contextual ideas include local character, archival record, regional drinks industry, before-and-after reference, drinks packaging, documentary photography, bottle-filling machinery, and fermented drink production. The recorded references to Banbury, Hooky, Oxfordshire, Brewery, and Norton preserve clues about how the subject was presented, used or understood at the time. The period setting at Brewery Ln, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX15 5NY helps place the main subject within real social and physical surroundings rather than isolating it as an abstract object. The wider significance includes tourism and the relationship between orchard agriculture, regional identity and branded cider as part of the longer story of Brewery Ln, Hook Norton, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK, OX15 5NY.