“In those days, too, we used to lunch at places which seem entirely to have disappeared. The {{w|Aleister Crowley#Early life|"Crowley's Alton Alehouse"}} is not so frequently met with as it was thirty years ago. The "alehouses" were, in fact, small shops fitted with a {{w|Beer engine|beer-engine}} and a counter; they had been established by Mr. Crowley, a brewer of {{w|Alton, Hampshire|Alton}}, on finding the difficulty of procuring ordinary public-houses for the sake of his beer; and at them was sold nothing but beer, {{w|ham sandwich}}es, bread and cheese, but all of the very best.”