That's a shame. An announcement has been made that a 200 year old brewery in Burton upon Trent is set to close next year. We all grew up surrounded by breweries. Generations of Burtonians were employed in the industry. Everyone knew someone who worked there. Here is a news report.
Carlsberg Britvic are set to close a nearly 200-year-old brewery in Burton upon Trent with hundreds of jobs at risk. The company said Marston's Brewery could shut its doors for good, including its primary logistics operation at the site. The Horninglow Brewery in Burton upon Trent was established in 1834 and around 310 employees will be impacted by the planned closure.
Burton-upon-Trent's connections with the brewing industry date back centuries, with the firm describing its own history and legacy in the town as "iconic".
However, it said the "stark reality" was that UK cask ale volumes had more than halved in less than a decade and "this trend looks set to continue across the UK".
This has prompted me to search through my vast collection of photographs. I remember this parade of horses came to Burton in the mid 1970's. I was positioned in Derby Street, with my camera, to snap them as they went by.
Goodnight. Toodle pip. ilona
Oh I remember sending film in to be developed! Not too far from here is a large brewery, a Budweiser plant. They are known for their majestic Clydesdales horses, and still bring them to different advertising events. But times are changing. People drink so much less beer these days, I think last year the best selling beer in America was an ultra light beer. Between the GLP-1s and the Keto diets, people just don't drink as much, in general. But it is sad when those places close...we used to have a huge Nestle factory in a small city near here, you could smell that chocolate for miles...it closed and is now a pile of bricks...
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ReplyDeleteMarstons Pedigree,.... started me on a life time of heavy drinking,... perhaps not a good thing.
My heart goes out to those who will lose their jobs. I’m sure generations of families have worked there.
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ReplyDeleteI too think it is dreadful that the Brewery is being closed down. I don't know anyone who worked there, but do live a few miles away, and Burton has been our shopping town since I was a child. I've always been proud to say that Burton is famous for it's Brewing industry and history. Once, everything we bought was made in England/Britain, now not only is so much imported, but our industry is owned by foreigners.
I remember standing in a narrow entrance to a Burton street, the Bass Shirehorses and wagons were getting ready to leave, I was about 20yrs old and standing on the pavement right next to them, Wow, they are huge , even more so when you are right next to them!
We also sent our photographs to Trueprint, cheaper than Boots, and you got a free film. When I look at them in the album now, like so many other people's I've seen, they have gone a strange browny colour and tan coats look red. My husband said that film had probably been developed
in over used chemicals, I don't know.
Jean.