These are the scenes in St.Giles, a slum north of Covent Garden, and nearby Westminster, circa 1751. Or, rather, they are St. Giles and Westminster as depicted by William Hogarth in his pair of 1751 prints, “Gin Lane” and “Beer Street.”
What is the difference between Gin Lane and Beer Street?
Here, Hogarth contrasts two societies; honest beer drinkers and idle gin boozers, good versus evil. 'Beer Street' portrays an image of an ideal and quintessentially British society fuelled by patronage and England's own produce. In contrast, the citizens of 'Gin Lane', are shown guzzling vast quantities of gin.
The pictures provide alternative visions of London. Gin Lane thrusts us into the abyss of the slum of St Giles north of Covent Garden, where alcoholic mothers pour gin into the mouths of their offspring.
Hogarth's nightmarish scene is set in the slum known as the Ruins of St Giles and includes a drunken mother dropping her baby to take a pinch of snuff, the burial of a naked woman, mass brawling, and a man and dog fighting over a bone.
Beer Street (By William Hogarth) is an etching published as a print in February 1751. It idealistically contrasts the wholesomeness of beer drinking with the degradation that results from unbridled gin drinking as depicted in the artist's companion piece, Gin Lane.
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Where is Gin Lane in London?
Set in the parish of St Giles – a notorious slum district that Hogarth depicted in several works around this time – Gin Lane depicts the squalor and despair of a community raised on gin. Desperation, death and decay pervade the scene.
Gordon Parsons wrote and arranged the song about his local pub at Taylors Arm, New South Wales, adapted from Irish poet Dan Sheahan's original poem "A Pub Without Beer" about the Day Dawn Hotel in Ingham, North Queensland, now known as Lees Hotel, Ingham, Queensland.
The gin obsession was blamed for misery, rising crime, madness, higher death rates and falling birth rates. Gin joints allowed women to drink alongside men for the first time and it is thought this led many women neglecting their children and turning to prostitution, hence gin becoming known as 'Mother's Ruin'.
Gin originated as a medicinal liquor made by monks and alchemists across Europe. The modern gin was modified in Flanders and the Netherlands to provide aqua vita from distillates of grapes and grains, becoming an object of commerce in the spirits industry.
The country's capital, London, is home to the highest concentration of gin distilleries and with the city being the namesake of the gin style 'London Dry', it's perhaps no surprise.
70 percent of gin in the UK market is produced in Scotland. Gordon's Gin, made in Fife, is the world's most popular brand, but there are at least 200 more gin brands produced in Scotland, and many more continue to appear on the shelves , thanks to the spirit's ever-growing popularity.
The weakest gins already come at 40% ABV, which is much higher than your standard canned or bottled beer that only goes for around 5% alcohol. If you compare it with, let's say, wine, then a bottle of gin still outplays a bottle of wine that only has 12% ABV.
However, the most popular way to drink London dry gin is in a London dry gin and tonic. All you have to do is mix London dry gin with a premium tonic and garnish with fruit, berries and spices to your liking and you have a delicious and quick-to-make cocktail.
“As people get the kick from escalating alcohol levels, the same increases reduce the brain's ability to suppress impulsive feelings or to consider the consequences of acting on them.”
The juniper berries that are present in every gin (in varying quantities) increases the number of enzymes that break down the food to help with digestion and minimise bloating. So while there is no scientific evidence to deny or confirm that drinking gin kills body fat, it may reduce belly and abdominal fat.
The pool scenes are filmed at the Sol Pelicanos Ocas Hotel in Benidorm, and the room scenes are filmed in the Acuariam II Apartments (which overlook the pool). The reception area and the salon is filmed in a studio set in a building opposite Benidorm Palace, known as "The Pink House".
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Around Australia, thousands of fans had gathered to stand outside the cathedral; Dusty was later cremated at Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney. Dusty had been working on his 106th album for EMI at the time of his death.
