Title: Thatchers Then & Now: The Story Of A Cidermaking Family
Author: James Russell & Neil Phillips
Year: 2014
Format: Hardback
Page Count: 139
Price new: £17.21 (Amazon)*
*accurate at the time of posting
Description: (TLDR)
3 sections 'Thatchers Story' 'Twenty-first century cider company' and 'Apples & Orchards'
Lots of really nice photographs, many of them full page.
On the back of the book it says:
There have been Thatchers in northern Somerset since at least 1806 and we know that by 1878 Benjamin Thatcher of Upper Langford was advertising his Prime new cider at 30 shillings per hogshead.
James Russell traces the history of Thatchers cidermaking from those beginnings to the present day. The modern generation of Thatchers have established themselves as leading family cidermakers with a reputation for producing a wide range of ciders to the highest quality and for breaking new ground in the development of orchards while caring for the land that produces the finest cider apples in the world
Photographer Neil Phillips has been capturing the images of Thatchers cidermaking for many years and this book is a showcase of his fantastic pictures as he documents the orchard and cidermaking year, the traditions and innovations, and goes behind the scenes at Myrtle Farm, Sandford to produce this unique body of work.
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