by Jenny Proctor | Mar 17, 2025 | Latest News
Within the National Brewery Archive, we have a large library of books and periodicals covering a very wide range of local and industry topics. As part of our work to rationalise and catalogue the library, Archivist Stephanie Nield identified a significant number of...
by Jenny Proctor | Mar 5, 2025 | Latest News
The Trust has reunited a substantial archive collection relating to the Mansfield Brewery. Boxes of historic documents from the Brewery have been transferred from the Trust’s archive in Burton upon Trent, to Nottinghamshire Archives, which is run by Inspire: Culture,...
by Jenny Proctor | Nov 26, 2024 | Latest News
The Bass red triangle is among the most famous trademarks in the world. As you might expect it appears on very many of the artefacts in the Collection, as well as appearing in the architecture of Bass House. It was registered on 1 January 1876 under a new piece of...
by Jenny Proctor | Nov 21, 2024 | Latest News
Steph Nield has joined the Trust as a freelance archivist. She has two decades of experience working in charity and not-for-profit archives, and spent many years working with disability support charity Leonard Cheshire. She is also a Trustee of the British Records...
by Jenny Proctor | Jul 23, 2024 | Latest News
Friday 24th July 1914 was an important date for the employees of Bass Ratcliffe & Gretton. Starting at 3.40am a series of 14 specially chartered trains took over 7000 brewery workers and their families from Burton railway station on a day trip to the seaside. The...