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...
RAF 48 Squadron Always Over The Drink!

RAF 48 Squadron Always Over The Drink!

48 Squadron was formed at Netheravon on the 15th April 1916; the first unit of the then Royal Flying Corps to be equipped with the Bristol B.F.2 aircraft.  Posted to France on the 8th March 1917, the Squadron accounted for three hundred and seventeen kills during the...
Brewery Men Remembered

Brewery Men Remembered

As the country commemorates 80 years since the D-Day landings in June 1944 we talked to volunteer Malcolm Goode about his research into the brewery workers who served in the D-Day Campaign. Malcolm has volunteered with the Trust since 2016 and has a particular passion...
Fund launched to restore historic grain wagon

Fund launched to restore historic grain wagon

Once horse drawn wagons carrying grain, hops and beer were the vehicles of choice for brewers and farmers. Now volunteers at the National Brewery Heritage Trust are restoring a 19th century barley waggon (sic). The vehicle was sold by Bass in 1932 to Ian Anchor of...