Knotty Ash Ale – a £2500 tipple

RARE pub jugs have a habit of turing up in unusual places. The previously unrecorded Knotty Ash Ales jug, right, made in the latter years of the 19th century for Joseph Jones & Co., had been spotted in a thrift shop in British Columbia earlier this year.

Unsure whether or not to risk laying out Can$45, a call had been placed to the Elsecar Heritage Cent…

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