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Bass Beer Museum

Glad to see they are goimg to reopen it, the big mistakewas changing the
name to Coors, Bass is well known all over the world, whos ever heard Coors??? Enid and I took Naomi our grandaughter there a few years ago funny I was only looking at some pics the other day, cheers Bernard
 
Definitely worth a visit.Amongst the collections there is a very interesting model of old Burton town showing the breweries and the extensive railway system that once criss-crossed the town.The breweries had their own fleets of steam locos.The museum has the last preserved 'Bass' loco and the Directors' coach.
It's reckoned that there were over thirty railway level crossings in the town on the brewery lines;there were three in Station Street alone!
 
Hi Laurie, You are preaching to the converted, Enid and I moved . under the overspill scheme in 1957 , it was a Country Borou gh and the second
highest rated in the country, we lived at Stretton just outside and came
under Tutbury RDC. You can thank the the NUR and ASLEF for getting rid of the trains, the breweries got fed up with strikes in the 1960s and all hired, to begin with, fleets of massive lorries.Burton people are the most parochial you will ever meet, they hated Brummies, the best thing I found
in Burton was the A38 to Derby. cheers now Bernard. (The Bass shire hosses were beautiful ).
 
I used to really dislike Burton on Trent, a dark and gloomy town full of dingy terraced houses and the awful smell of the breweries. The people seemed as bad, too, when I used to drive the 112 bus from Birmingham to there.
However, as with many places it has cleaned up its act since then and I used to enjoy my visits to the Bass museum for their annual bus rally over the last couple of decades, and the steak and ale pie in the restaurant was to die for!
I do hope the place reopens, Coors may have bought Bass but no self respecting Englishman would buy American named beer in this country, much less in Burton!

Bass brewery engine no4 at on of the many level crossings in the town.
 
Hi Lloyd, That brings back a few memories, the times I have waited, on my bike for those gates to open on the way to work, the sorting office was
in Union Street, it have moved to an industrial estate on Hawkins Lane.
I had 17, mainly unhappy years in the town. The smell hanging over the
place was Marmite, which is made from spent yeast from the brewing
process,(not many people know that, as M. Caine would say). I found that
in the Post Office, Big is Beautiful and certainly was some small town
minded folk in Burton, when I moved to Derby in 1973 it was being back
in Brum, well! almost I had to learn to say "Hey up me duck", cheers now
Bernard Quote; I like long walks especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward (1889_1973)
 
The smell of the Marmite factory in Wellington Road still hangs over the town!When I first moved to the area some years ago,it took a while to get used to some of the local phrases and sayings,such as "Ay oop me duck"!And the locals thought I sounded odd with a Brummie accent!
 
Hi Laurie, When we first moved to Burton in 1957, the Marmite was in
Mosely Street next door to Roberts + Birchs, the pork pie factory, they had
a sign on the door "Our pigs die happy", they then moved t o Wellington Street extention as it was called which later became Wellington Road. I can remember Burton Albion playing down there before
they moved to Eton Park, now of course they have a brand new statium.
I note you live in Barton, I used to do the Sunday collection round there in
1958. Cheers now Bernard
 
Hi Bernard,
There have been a lot of changes down the Wellington Road extension over the years,most of William Cook's foundry has now gone.
I moved to Barton in the 1980's and the village has grown quite lot over the years with new schools and housing estates.
The news about the Bass Museum being opened was confirmed on BBC Midlands Today a few evenings ago.
 
Hello again Laurie, it was Lloyds foundry in my day, they had had another one in the Black Country somewhere, I go round that way some times, you
get a nice meal at the Albion on Shobnall Road, and its buy one get one
free, well worth a visit! A lot of villages around Burton have grown, I lived
at Stretton and you see the building that has gone on there. When I first started the Barton Sunday collection a self employed joiner used to
meet me in his little van and give me all his bills to post, he later married
into money and did rather well for himself, his name Stan Clarke.
Bye for now take care Bernard
 
We visited the Bass Museum 2/3 years ago and thoroughly enjoyed, I understand the visitor numbers were quite low and that is the reason it was closed down. We went mid-week and there were only about 20/30 people there. I would certainly recommend a visit.
 
I read the other day that the company who run the Robin Hood centre in Nottingham are taking over the Bass Museum sometime this year, so we should see it reopen
the biggest mistake was of course changing the name!! My son Paul takes me to Nottingham now and again, I love their Market Square, Bernard
 
Bit of news

The National Brewery Centre will be opening in Burton Upon Trent this Spring (2010).

Following the closure of the Coors Visitor Centre and Museum of Brewing (formerly the Bass Museum) in 2008, Planning Solutions Ltd, a British company specialising in the operation of visitor attractions, has announced that it intends to open a revitalised visitor centre and museum at the Horninglow Street site.
Called The National Brewery Centre, it will retain key elements of the existing facilities, whilst updating and reorganising the site to create a unique visitor attraction that will ensure its success well into the 21st Century
 
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