State-controlled pubs perform well

One of the weird fallouts of WW I was an area where the brewery and pubs were state-owned. 

An influx of workers to the important munitions-producing area around the England-Scotland border close to Carlisle during WW I caused some problems with drunkenness. The solution was to nationalise the breweries and pubs to bring them under state control.

For whatever reason, state-ownership didn't end with hostilities. But trundled on well past WW II. Only being brutally ended by Ted Heath's government in the early 1970s*. 

Still, reading about the State Management scheme in WW II is still a bit odd. As an investment by the government, it certainly paid off. It mad a profit every single year of its operation. Which wasn't the case of every capitalist brewing operation.

These were their profits in the early war years:

State Management Scheme net profits 1938 - 1942
	Carlisle £	Gretna £	Cromarty Firth £	total
1938-39	70,018	3,400	6,540	79,958
1939-40	101,897	3,800	12,148	117,845
1940-41	147,434	5,260	15,324	168,018
1941-42	176,371	10,359	20,983	207,713
total	495,720	22,819	54,995	573,534
Source:
The Brewing Trade Review, August 1943, page 261.

To put that into context, these are the profits of Barclay Perkins, a considerably lager operation that the Carlisle State Brewery:

Barclay Perkins profit 1939-1942
Year	net profit
1939	£213,432
1940	£225,000
1941	£166,444
1942	£199,246
Sources:
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 22 June 1939, page 15.
The Scotsman - Saturday 15 June 1940, page 4.
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Thursday 28 August 1941, page 5.
Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 30 July 1942, page 4.
The Scotsman - Friday 13 August 1943, page 2.

* Back then, Ted Heath was seen as being one of the worst post-war Prime Ministers. He's fallen right back in the field in recent years. It's not his fault. Back in the 1970s, no-one could have anticipated just how crap politicians would get.