Are you fed up with the ever increasing price of beer in your local pub? This feeling is nothing new!
In 1936 Laurence Sykes and J White felt the same and carved a hidden message into one of the beams used to renovate Tudor House Museum in Southampton saying that they were fed up that beer was 7 pence a pint as prices were rising for the first time in years and it is inscribed J WHITE L SYKES FED UP BEER 7d A PINT. The other face of the beam was the visible side and has been treated meaning this protest was not found for almost 70 years until renovations in 2001.
The Daily Echo were able to trace the daughters of Laurence Sykes (who would have been 33 in 1936). Marion Bolger and Shelagh Ryan remember their father telling them about what he had done and often wondered if it would ever be found.
It has has been laser scanned as part of a collaborative project between Southampton Cultural Services and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
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