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was, like alldirector
managing
the Flowers,
of the very
brewery
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and vice-chairman
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think
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ingo1940,
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and
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years
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youTrust.
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know,
1945.
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was takenpart
wouldn't
brewing
give
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up. examinations.
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at the beginning
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came
brewery
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roof,
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Bodleian
and
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he was
they
were
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ingreat
out
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by
difficulty
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putting
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The
takein
examinations
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it" brewing were
exams.
properly
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invigilated
timesand
he the papers were sealed and
was both
sent
backmanaging
to England.
director
I managed
and chairman
to pass which
of thewas
brewery.
very useful once the war was over."
"Flowers beer was pretty well-known by the 1880s and we got a record of where we sent our beer in the casks
by ship. For instance to the army in India and that sort of thing. It is said that we were the originators of the
name India Pale Ale. It literally went all over the world, to the Cape, to Australia, and to South America."
