Beer?

[Willd]

I have strong views on this beer too...

sums it up for me

 

[Venod]

Love him or hate him this bloke was a legend in the brewing community

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/26240979.humphrey-smith-tadcasters-sam-smiths-brewery-dies-81/

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Love him or hate him this bloke was a legend in the brewing community

https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/26240979.humphrey-smith-tadcasters-sam-smiths-brewery-dies-81/

Most stuff about him seems to be surrounding his "eccentric" rules for his pubs, and whether they're good/bad/quirky.

But a lot of people who worked for him will tell you he was a grade a ****. Ruined people's lives. Took great pubs and shuttered them, because he could. Used his wealth and power to rule over Tadcaster.

This anecdote got my attention:

Some of you might be old enough to understand what this rate of pay was, but I'm not, so I worked it out.

A shilling in 1961 is worth £1.44 in todays money, after taking account for metric conversion and compound inflation.
A very rich man gave a couple of kids less than a pound fifty each for a full days work for charity.

Even if we say that the anecdote has become exaggerated with time - that it took them say 5 hours not 9 and that he paid them two shillings each he'd only have paid them just over a third of todays minimum wage per hour for an under 16 for five hours work.