The people in the county town of Dorchester enjoy the festivities as they celebrate one hundred years of brewing beer.

Step into Dorchester brewery and watch beer being brewed, blended and bottled for the discerning 1930s public. Then go outside and soak up the atmosphere as hundreds of people convene to celebrate the centenary of this much-loved brewing house. If you are an ale connoisseur, this film will certainly quench your thirst!

The red-brick Victorian brewery building was built in 1879 by architect W.R. Crickmay and sited next to Brunel's south coast railway line. In 1837 Charles and Sarah Eldridge bought the Green Dragon brewery. After her husband's death in 1846, it became Eldridge, Mason and Co. and in 1870 the Pope brothers renamed the company Eldridge, Pope and Co. Destroyed by fire in 1922, it was closed for three years. In 1937, its centenary year, the brewery produced a coronation beer in honour of George VI, some of which still exists to this day. Today the brewery is part of a redevelopment scheme.