Blind Hookey mb-artist Claes_Jansz_Visscher Meux's Brewery

Meux's Brewery

with the tail containing depictions of national events during 1853

13th June 1962

Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The crops have to be harvested within fourteen days circa 1942

the two men present each other with flowery compliments

Blind Hookey mb-artist Claes_Jansz_Visscher Meux's BreweryBlind Hookey, 1878. Russia, Tukey and Germany are amongst those seated at the card table. John Bull, the representative of the British people, refuses to join the game. This relates to the recent Treaty of San Stefano which laid down the terms for peace between Russia and Turkey. Lord Salisbury had despatched a circular to the Powers objecting to a number of the terms of the Treaty. There was a growing distance between Russia and Britain at this time