Description
About the Author
Patrick Grattan MBE comes from Kent. He had a long career as a diplomat in Stockholm, Paris, Brussels and London, worked in the oil industry, and also ran charities related to employment and equal opportunities. Oasts and hop kilns is a subject he first studied in the 1960s. He has written much, but this is his first book.
Reviews
'Grattan brings a definitive study to this surprisingly wide ranging subject [...] the book provides everything that a conservation officer could require.'
Graham Tite, Context
'This book is superbly illustrated with a plethora of colour photographs, sketches of the author's research in 1960 and a number of drawings and cross-sections to illustrate both production processes and building... this book presents an excellent historical analysis of the traditional buildings associated with the hop industry, set within the background of the cultivation, processing and marketing of English hops.' Alan M. Wadsworth, Agricultural History Review
'Throughout, the book is very well illustrated with [Grattan's] own and other historic photographs, his delightful sketches, and colour images of many of the surviving kilns... this book is an essential source for anyone studying or interested in oast and hop kiln buildings and their development in the two main regions. Since relatively few unaltered oast and hop kilns survive it is also a record of the buildings of this rural industry.' Amber Patrick, Industrial Archaeology Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781789622515
Author Patrick Grattan
Format Hardback
Page Count 192
Imprint Historic England
Publisher Liverpool University Press