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Bulmers - Cider

After three utterly exhausting weeks at work, I finally have some days off. With the Easter days and my own days off I get a full week to do just nothing 🤩

When I got home from work today my husband handed me this. He knows me well 😍

#easter off work #bulmers

I always feel like somebody's watching me. Also, I love cider. #dublin #squadtrip #bulmers #oldstorehouse #cider (at The Old Storehouse Temple Bar Dublin)

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Bulmers - Irish Cider

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This is my review of a great book on Cider history.

"Bulmers of Hereford: A Century of Cider-making" by the acclaimed classical author L. P. Wilkinson is the definitive history that chronicles the meteoric rise of the iconic British beverage brand formed in 1887, until its float on the stock market in 1970. Published in 1987 by David & Charles to commemorate the company's centenary, the book is an engaging blend of industrial progress and social history. Wilkinson went to Kings College Cambridge with Robert Harold Bulmer son of co founder Edward Bulmer and they became friends and worked together on projects.

Wilkinson traces the company's roots to Credenhill, exploring how Percy took his mother's advice to enter the food and drink trade because it

"never goes out of fashion".

And the subsequent shift from traditional stone mills and horse-drawn presses (vividly illustrated on the book's dust jacket) to massive modern industrialisation, including the creation of the world's largest fermentation vat at the time.

Beyond just Bulmers the book explores the wider social history of Herefordshire's orchards, detailing how cider evolved from a standard form of farm labourer wages into an internationally recognized commercial product.

It is highly regarded among beverage historians and local history enthusiasts alike. Readers will appreciate Wilkinson's attention to detail, he includes invaluable primary documentation, rare archival photographs, and historical footnotes in the family archives and more in the Cider Museum . It is an ideal companion piece for me to a visit to the Museum of Cider in Hereford, which is housed in Bulmers' original vintage factory site and where I visited several yea ago.

The vivid cover jacket photograph was taken in one of the barns at Tarrington Court, where the Friends of the Museum held fundraisers as its owner was a friend of the Bulmers. Sadly the photographer is unknown. #Bulmers #cider #history

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There is no engraving or painting of the Yarlington Mill cider apple in the classic pomonas, such as the Pomona Herefordiensis by Andrew Knight 1811 nor The Herefordshire Pomona by Hogg & Bull 1876–1885 simply because the Yarlington Mill apple was not discovered till 1898, which was after these major works were published! There is a painting of it however in the new Bulmer’s Pomona of 1987. Paintings by Caroline Todhunter #cider #paintings #pomona #Bulmers