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Inside Guinness August 22, 1953

August 22, 2016 By Jay Brooks

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In England, the Picture Post was the equivalent of Life magazine here in the U.S. It “was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,700,000 copies a week after only two months.”

On August 22, 1953, one of the photographers for the Picture Post — Bert Hardy — visited Dublin, Ireland, and was permitted inside the Guinness brewery at St. James Gate. I’m not sure how many photos he took, but recently Mashable featured twenty-two of them. Here are a few of them below, it’s a great glimpse into the past, and to see all of them, follow the instructions below.

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Workers drain beer from a mash tun.

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Workers watch as yeast is skimmed off the top of the beer before it is passed to vats for maturing.

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A worker fills casks in the racking shed.

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Workers at the Guinness brewery at St. James’s Gate in Dublin.

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Workers hose down casks.

You can see all 22 of them below, or visit Mashable.

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Filed Under: Beers, Breweries, Just For Fun, Related Pleasures Tagged With: Great Britain, Guinness, History, Ireland, Photo Gallery, Photography, UK



Comments

  1. Tom Dalldorf says

    August 23, 2016 at 9:51 am

    Well done, Jay! Unbelievably beautiful b&w industrial art documenting the harsh physical demands of industry. What’s not portrayed — the number of workers injured or killed in producing such industrial products.

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