Foreword <strong>The</strong> Brewery History Society (BHS) was founded in 1972 to promote research into all aspects of the brewing industry, to encourage the interchange of information about breweries and brewing, and to collect photographic and other archive information about brewery history. <strong>The</strong> Society publishes a Newsletter and a quarterly journal Brewery History, which first appeared in 1972. It has also published a national directory and a series of county-wide surveys of historic breweries; the Society’s archive is held by Birmingham Central Library. Further details of BHS activities may be found at . <strong>The</strong> ongoing threat to the historic fabric of the <strong>English</strong> brewing industry was discussed at the conference From Grain to Glass, organised jointly by <strong>English</strong> <strong>Heritage</strong> (EH), the BHS and the Association for Industrial Archaeology (AIA), which took place at Swindon on 13 June 2003; the joint BHS and Victorian Society study day From Hop to Hostelry: the brewing and licensed trades 1837 -1914 (Young’s Ram Brewery, Wandsworth, 25 February 2006); and during the AIA Ironbridge Working Weekend (Coalbrookdale, 29 April 2006). Following this EH agreed to support a project on ‘<strong>The</strong> <strong>Brewing</strong> <strong>Industry</strong>’, which was carried out between July 2007 and September 2009. Its aims were to provide up to date information on all pre-1940 operating breweries, to compile a comprehensive list of historic brewery buildings (the computerised BHS Breweries Database), to consider the future of the industry’s archives, and to undertake a national assessment on the industry, in the form of a Strategy for the Historic Industrial Environment report (SHIER). Acknowledgements <strong>The</strong> project steering committee comprised Jeff Sechiari (BHS Chair), Ray Anderson (BHS President), and BHS committee members Ken Smith and Mike Bone. <strong>The</strong> project researcher was Lynn Pearson, author and BHS member. Much of the groundwork was carried out by BHS members, who contributed to a survey of England’s remaining brewery buildings. <strong>The</strong>y included: John Arguile, David Baker, Paul Bayley, Mike Brown, Des Clarke, Neil Clarke, David Cox, Tony Crosby, George Crutcher, Geoff Dye, Philip Eley, Ray Farleigh, Robert Flood, Simon Gispert, Jenny Greenhalgh, John Hodges, Tim Holt, Peter Holtham, Ian Hornsey, Bob Inman, Malcolm James, John Janaway, Ray Kirby, Chris Marchbanks, Mary Miles, Peter Moynihan, Ken Page, Ian Peaty, Steve Peck, Pat Saunders, Mark Steeds, D. J. Taylor, Alan Walker, Jeffrey Waller, Allan Whitaker and John Williamson. <strong>The</strong> steering committee and Lynn Pearson are very grateful to all those who took part in the survey. We are also grateful to others who assisted with the project, including Heloise Brown (Victorian Society), Tony Calladine, Bruce Hedge (AIA), Sue Hudson, Malcolm C. James (who kindly allowed us to see a copy of his thesis on the brewery buildings of Burton upon Trent), Joseph Mirwitch, Ann Morris, Richard Oxborrow, Amber Patrick, Kingsley Rickard, Sheila Stones and Ken Thomas (Courage <strong>Archive</strong>). We are also grateful for the support of the Association for Industrial Archaeology. In addition, we are particularly grateful to Norman Barber, former BHS Archivist, without whose earlier research our task would have been impossible. Finally we should like to thank <strong>English</strong> <strong>Heritage</strong> for offering us the opportunity to carry out this project. Keith Falconer, EH Head of Industrial Archaeology, provided constant support and enthusiasm for the idea of the brewery industry project. Peter Smith, our EH Project Officer, ensured that we kept on course, while Gareth Watkins, Barney Sloane and Tim Cromack helped considerably in the project’s early stages. Please note that all photographs are by members of the Brewery History Society unless otherwise stated. LBS = Listed Buildings System.
Contents 1 Major repositories of brewing industry archives and books 1 2 Whitbread <strong>Archive</strong> 2 3 Allied Breweries <strong>Archive</strong> 2 4 Bass <strong>Archive</strong> 2 5 Courage <strong>Archive</strong> 2 6 How to locate brewing archive material 2 7 Dealing with archival problems resulting from brewery closures 3 8 Guidance on depositions 3 9 <strong>Brewing</strong> artefacts 3 10 References and websites 4 Appendix Major brewing-related accessions to repositories in 1990-1 and 1994-2008 5
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