It then boasted 13 beerhouses and two public houses.

On Friday, February 10, 1826, Christian Andersen, a Norwegian seaman aboard the Sylph, drank in beerhouses around the Baltic Triangle, before getting into a cart in Kitchen Street.

By the later 19th century, the era of the publican brewer in Birmingham was fast drawing to an end, overwhelmed by the rise of the large common breweries that were buying up pubs and beerhouses so as to have outlets for their beers.

We drank in Prague beerhouses and stayed in art deco splendour as Czechoslovakia went to the polls, and we swam in the steam baths of Budapest as old men played chess after voting.

Sound is measured in decibels and chainsaw creates a sound equivalent to 100 decibels which can be heard at night by the mayor, chief of police, and the boys in beerhouses.

Many other premises have evolved from humble alehouses, through back-street beerhouses, low town dives and flaring gin palaces to the drinking establishments of the 21st century.

By the later 19th century, the era of the publican brewer in Birmingham was fast By the later 19th century, the era of the publican brewer in Birmingham was fast drawing to an end, overwhelmed by the rise of the large common breweries that were buying up pubs and beerhouses so as to have outlets for their beers.

In 1868 there was noted to be 69 public houses and 127 beerhouses in Middlesbrough.

Central Birmingham Pubs records the inns, taverns and beerhouses of the city centre, now within the present Inner Ring Road and Bull Ring.

The wisest policy was often `see no evil, hear no evil' -- above all when it might involve interference with beerhouses or other elements of village recreational life.

On Friday and Saturday nights, the city centre formed a contested terrain, as gangs drawn from as far apart as Salford and Bradford confronted each other in music-halls, nearby beerhouses and the surrounding streets.

They smashed up beerhouses "throwing glasses and pitchers around to a dangerous extent".