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One of the weird fallouts of WW I was an area where the brewery and pubs were state-owned. An influx of workers to the important munitions-producing area around the England-Scotland border close to Carlisle during WW I caused some problems with drunkenness. The solution was to nationalise the breweries and pubs to bring them under state control.
For whatever reason, state-ownership didn't end with hostilities. But trundled on well past WW II. Only being brutally ended by Ted Heath's government in the early 1970s*.
Still, reading about the State Management scheme in WW II is still a bit odd. As an investment by the government, it certainly paid off. It mad a profit every single year of its operation. Which wasn't the case of every capitalist brewing operation.
These were their profits in the early war years:
State Management Scheme net profits 1938 - 1942 |
|
Carlisle £ |
Gretna £ |
Cromarty Firth £ |
total |
1938-39 |
70,018 |
3,400 |
6,540 |
79,958 |
1939-40 |
101,897 |
3,800 |
12,148 |
117,845 |
1940-41 |
147,434 |
5,260 |
15,324 |
168,018 |
1941-42 |
176,371 |
10,359 |
20,983 |
207,713 |
total |
495,720 |
22,819 |
54,995 |
573,534 |
Source: |
The Brewing Trade Review, August 1943, page 261. |
To put that into context, these are the profits of Barclay Perkins, a considerably lager operation that the Carlisle State Brewery:
Barclay Perkins profit 1939-1942 |
Year |
net profit |
1939 |
£213,432 |
1940 |
£225,000 |
1941 |
£166,444 |
1942 |
£199,246 |
Sources: |
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 22 June 1939, page 15. |
The Scotsman - Saturday 15 June 1940, page 4. |
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 28 August 1941, page 5. |
Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 30 July 1942, page 4. |
The Scotsman - Friday 13 August 1943, page 2. |
* Back then, Ted Heath was seen as being one of the worst post-war Prime Ministers. He's fallen right back in the field in recent years. It's not his fault. Back in the 1970s, no-one could have anticipated just how crap politicians would get.
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