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Following on from yesterday's post about the ridiculous prices paid for pubs around 1900, here are the sales figures for some of Barclay Perkins London boozers.


Barclay Perkins sales by pub 1901 - 1910 (in pounds)
pub
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
Angel
1010
1343
1334
1082
1089
955
1009
1098
926
953
Albert House
1195
1109
1052
966
835
747
827
838
654
393
Anchor
1860
2617
2925
2606
2616
2388
2909
3071
2913
2803
Anchor & Hope
1690
1559
1431
1341
1172
1090
963
751
601
606
Source:
document ACC/2305/1/517 of the Courage Archive helsd at the London Metropolitan Archives

I assume the figures are what the tenant paid to the brewery for beer as for later years there's a barrelage figures, too. At between a thousand and two thousand pounds a year in beer sales, it would have taken decades for a brewery to recoup an investment of 20 or 30 thousand quid. Doesn't seem to make economic sense to me.


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