Charles Dickens’ novels have a reputation for developing characters whose behaviour, although dramatic, is somewhat far-fetched and implausible, and none more so than Ebeneezer Scrooge in Dickens’ 1843 ‘A Christmas Carol, but legendary miser of Gloucester and owner of Gloucester Bank, Jemmy Wood (1756 – 1836) was Dickens’ real life inspiration for the embodiment of winter Scrooge. Unlike Dickens’ Scrooge who went on to have his cold, pinched heart restored to the innocent goodwill he had experienced in childhood and youth, Jemmy Wood died before the book was printed and he could benefit from the powerful statements of ‘A Christmas Carol’. Share the beer and share the love, that’s what we say!