The text on the left forms the introduction to a booklet published to mark
he fiftieth anniversary of the creation of J.P.Beer's Estates Ltd. It is difficult
to find anything accurate in it which is surprising, as the directors of the company
included his one surviving child and four grandchildren.
To begin at the beginning - Joseph Preston Beer was not born in
1857, but in 1858 "as records show". Secondly, JP's wife was
not Florence Emma Sewell. She was Florence Lydia Sewell and is
entitled to have her name recorded correctly in any public document.
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