White Beer Travels. What's in a name? All is revealed below Schneider Weisse, a well-travelled, classic Wheat/White Beer, brewed in Bavaria by Schneider. Click on the image to go to their website This is a Web page featuring Emma Skinner, who was born on the 24th of November, 2003
Belgian Beer, German Beer, British Real Ale, North American Craft Beer and Speciality Beer and Specialty Beer from around the world, are all covered in this White Beer Travels website This White Beer Travels website has been in operation since March, 2002. It promotes Speciality/Craft Beer from around the world: Belgian Beer, German Beer, Craft Beer from the USA and Canada, Real Ale from the UK, etc
 
This gets you to the White Beer Travels home Page Click here for Speciality Beer and Brewery News. Old news can be found by clicking on "Archives" Click to find details of Beer Hunts that you can join Click here to get information on Past Beer Hunts organised by White Beer Travels Click here for information on what to expect on a typical Beer Hunt organised by White Beer Travels Current "Pub of the Month". See the "Archives" page for links to the other ones Click here for John White's Beer CV (Curriculum Vitae, Résumé) Click here for past Pubs of the Month, News, etc Click here for downloadable guides to places, breweries and bars Click here for "Links" to other websites. There are many on the other pages of the site, as well! Click here for full details on how to contact White Beer Travels nformation on aspects of how the site was built, including acknowledgement of any help received Click here for details of the French to English Translation Service offered by White Beer Travels, & for the contact details of organisations that can provide the reverse
Belgian Beer and other great Speciality/Craft Beers, these including Real Ale from the UK and Craft Beers from the USA and Canada, are promoted on this, the White Beer Travels website. It is a big site, so to get an outline idea of the contents, click here to go to the site's Contents page
  Würzburg, in Germany, is world-renowned for its "Franken" wines. However, White (Wheat) Beers have certainly travelled to the city. The three different ones shown here are excellent examples. All are brewed in the city's Würzburger Hofbräu Brewery. Click on the glasses to go to the brewery's website, from which the image was pasted
Emma Catherine Skinner, born in Grimsby:
Monday, the 24th of November, 2003

Unless otherwise indicated, the photos were taken by John White (Granddad Grimsby).

Birthday
(Photos taken ~ 2 hours after the birth, which was at 6.49pm GMT)

Proud parents Julia and Paul and brother Jack

Proud parents Julia and Paul and brother Jack

Paul, Jack and Emma Skinner

Paul, Jack and Emma Skinner
Jack and Emma, with Grandma Grimsby (Joyce White)
Jack and Emma, with Grandma Grimsby (Joyce White)

Jack and Emma, with Grandma Grimsby (Joyce White)

 

 

Day After birthday (at home, in Grimsby)

 

Emma in Grandad Boston's arms

 

Proud parents, with Jack and Emma

Proud parents, with Jack and Emma.

Emma and Jack with Grandad & Grandma Boston (Bill & Chris Skinner)

Emma and Jack with Granddad & Grandma Boston (Bill & Chris Skinner).

Emma with Granddad Grimsby (photo by Grandma Grimsby)

Emma with Granddad Grimsby (photo by Grandma Grimsby).

Jack & Emma Skinner

Jack & Emma Skinner.

 

Day Three after birthday (at home, in Grimsby, 27 Nov)

Emma, of course, with eyes open
Emma, of course, with hand on view
Emma, of course

 

Day Four after birthday (at home, in Grimsby, Friday, 28 Nov)

Emma with her great-grandmother, Mrs Ada White

Emma with her Great-Grandmother, the late Mrs Ada White.

Julia, with Emma in the arms of Julia's long-time friend, Julie Hepburn

Julia with Emma, who is in the arms of Julia's long-time friend, Julie Hepburn.

 

Day Five after birthday (at home, in Grimsby, Saturday, 29 Nov)

Champagne toast to Emma (Champagne purchased directly from its producer, L. Bénard-Pitois, in Mareuil-sur-Ay)

Toasting Emma with Champagne. Emma is with: both sets of Grandparents; Auntie Trina & Uncle Richard; & Julia & Paul. Granddad Grimsby took the photo, using a timer option, hence his appearance in it. Emma's brother Jack was not in the picture, as he was at Beavers for the day and night.

Emma in the arms of Auntie Trina, who is alongside her husband, Richard.

Emma with Uncle Richard & Auntie Trina.

Emma Skinner with her mother, Julia and Julia's father, John White. Photo by Trina West

Emma with Julia and Granddad Grimsby. The photo was taken by Trina West (née Skinner).

 

The 7th of December: at Grandma and Granddad Grimsby's House

Emma is in the arms of her mother, Julia Skinner (née White).

Emma is almost two weeks old here, in this photo featuring four generations of her family, ranging from her late Great-Grandmother Grimsby (White) to her brother, Jack Skinner. Newcomers to this Web page are Auntie Shifaana and Uncle Isaam (son of Grandma and Granddad Grimsby (White)).

 

The 10th of December: at Grandma and Granddad Grimsby's House

Your cursor is on a photo of Emma taken on Xmas Day, 2003

Christmas Day, 2003: at Grandma and Granddad Grimsby's House

In this Xmas Day, 2003 photo, Emma is with her father, Paul Skinner, the husband of Julia Skinner (née White)

As per the group photo above, this photo features four generations of her family, on Xmas Day, 2003, i.e. one calendar month and one day old. Also in the picture is Shifaana's cousin, Dhatha.

 

29th of December, 2003: at Grandma and Granddad Grimsby's House

In this photo featurin Emma, on the 29th of December, 2003, are a number of members of the White family. Emma's mother, Julia Skinner, was born a White. A digital photo

This group features Emma with her parents and brother, Jack, and Grandma & Granddad Grimsby, as per photos above, with Great-Grandmother, Mrs Ada White and two of her other children, Andrew White (with wife Ros and daughter Sarah) and Christine Hopkins (née White) and her husband Harry. The back row is Andy, Harry and Granddad Grimsby; the middle row is Julia, Paul, Ros and Great-Grandmother; the front row is Grandma Grimsby, Jack, Emma, Sarah and Chris. Martin White, brother to John, Chris and Andy, lives in Singapore; he should feature in a 2004 photo.

20th of February, 2004, i.e. almost three months old

Your cursor is on a photo of Emma Skinner

Not too many days before this photo was taken, Emma had started to smile, as she is clearly doing on it.

Your cursor is on a photo taken inside the Café Botteltje, Ostend, Belgium, the Hotel Marion's bar. This bar has the biggest selection of beers in the world, for an hotel bar. Click on the photo to go to the hotel's website, which covers this bar

In the photo, to the left, which was taken by John White, in February, 2005, Emma and her father, Paul, are studying the superb beer menu in the Café Botteltje, in Ostend, in Belgium. Emma was fifteen months' old when the photo was taken. For a picture of Emma's brother studying the same menu, click here. On the British beer front, it is interesting to note there is an Emma Skinner, who was born in 1983, who is the daughter of Steve and Sarah Skinner, who formed the highly regarded Skinner's Brewery, in Truro, in Cornwall (www.skinnersbrewery.com), in 1997.

John White (1945-), Your cursor is on an image of John White's e-mail address. Click on it to send an e-mail to John.

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