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Trust launches Crowd Funding Initiative
The Trust has a project under way to put Britain's Brewing Heritage Online. https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/brewing-heritage-online We want people to enjoy our brewing heritage but with only 1% of 500,000 items on display it is currently difficult for anyone interested...
Peace & Legacy, Burton Recovers
The project to celebrate 100 Years since the end of the Great War supported by the Trust and managed by The National Brewery Centre (NBC) has come to a close but not before it produced a lasting record through the production of a digital trail of the 10th November,...
Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I become Corporate Members
The Trust is delighted to welcome Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I as Corporate Members. Part of the AB InBev organisation, the company owns many ex Bass artefacts and archives at the National Brewery Centre. Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I is the trading name of AB...
Label Gift reminds how Bass Brands were distributed UK wide
Courtesy of Darley Limited, printers, the Trust has digitised a collection of labels from Worthington & Co brands that depict where they were bottled. The collection includes over 100 White Shield, 55 Worthington E (3 different styles) and a dozen Bass Pale Ale...
Darby’s Blue Plaque
Further to our earlier article entitled Darby's Ale Sign Saved, we are pleased to report that Carol Hartill and Friends of Dartmouth Park, applied for to the Lottery for funding for a Blue Plaque to be remember Darby’s, brewers of West Bromwich. Darby’s started...
Carlsberg Tetley Vehicles Maintenance
Pictured standing next to a 1923 Morris Cowley (Bullnose) are volunteers involved in the maintenance of 5 vehicles on loan to the NBC from Carlsberg Tetley. The picture shows Mark Chennell, Facilities Manager of Carlsberg Tetley present a cheque for...
Darby’s Ale Sign Saved
This ghost sign for Darby’s Ales was part of Lombard Street, West Bromwich for over eighty years, and, when part of the street was demolished last year, the Friends of Dartmouth Park saved the sign just before it disappeared in with the other bricks from the...
Trust gets Facebook presence
The Trust has resurrected it's presence on Facebook following a couple of years where little was posted. Under the expert authorship of Steve Gardner it has now been bought back to life with a number of significant posts already being made. Like Us on Facebook...
23 More labels added to the shop
The additional labels, were all products from breweries which at one time of another became part of the Bass family of companies. The additions include labels from Brutton Mitchell & Toms in Yeovil, Charringtons in Mile End, Crowleys and Page & Overton...
Beer Money Boosts NBHT
Proceeds from a special Molson Coors’ beer are being donated to The National Brewery Heritage Trust, to support their aim of protecting and preserving Britain’s brewing heritage. Molson Coors bottled the brew as part of its investment programme in its Burton Brewery...