Trust makes donation to National Brewing Library

Trust makes donation to National Brewing Library

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...
Mansfield Brewery archive reunited

Mansfield Brewery archive reunited

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,...
The famous red triangle trademark

The famous red triangle trademark

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...
Archivist Steph joins the team

Archivist Steph joins the team

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...
Last Bass train to Scarborough

Last Bass train to Scarborough

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...