Welcome to Home Brew Heritage


Welcome to Home Brew Heritage...


Homes For Ulverston CLT's new project, recording the life and times of Ulverton's Brewery, and of the people who worked there.
Through recorded interviews, research in local and regional archives and the sourcing of images and ephemera through public meetings in accessible local venues and online calls, Home Brew Heritage will collate and compile the histories of the management, workforce, client publicans and customers.

The result will be an online audio visual archive, with recordings of Hartleys / Robinsons workers and their families telling of their experiences and memories.

HOME BREW HERITAGE will acknowledge the significance of the Brewery to the town's economy, its social life and to the industrial history of the region, and to promote active engagement with a vital element of local history while it is still present in living memory. 

 The project is being delivered under the auspices of Homes For Ulverston CLT, other Home Brew activities are in the pipeline..

We want to hear from you...
if you have stories or photographs 
and would like to share them, contact Project Manager John Hall at              homebrewheritage@gmail.com








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  1. Unknown10 April 2020 at 13:10

    Exciting to see what people might come up with. I don't know anything about the Brewery, so have no memories, other than the lovely yeasty smell that wafted over the town when we were wandering round on our lunch-break.

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    1. ARTSPACE SOFT DRIVE18 April 2020 at 05:37

      I bet that was great..I grew up in Chesterfield, and the Trebor Sweets factory was near the railway station, so you got the smell of Fruit Salad chews when you got off the train...

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