HOMEBREW HERITAGE

  This will be the last of our posts for a while, the project website will be up soon and we'll be providing a link here. We are not exactly drawing the bolts: there'll be chances to make  some additions to  the site and the archive. Hopefully we will soon be able to visit  a few friends with stories and pictures to share. And there will be more events. Watch the usual spaces. If anyone out there is hearing of this project for the first time, you can still get in touch at homebrewheritage@gmail.com Thank you for all your comments, its been an enormous pleasure to work on this project. We have had some very nice comments from participants and visitors to the archive and as you can see, things are still arriving. Thanks to Joyce Wilding we now have this Hartley's Bar towel,  rescued from the back of a kitchen drawer and these brass taps from Nigel Saul, who recalls washing them out many times during his time at Hartley's.  The Hartley's In the 80's photo exhi...

 Many thanks to all who we met at the Hope And Anchor yesterday for  the launch of Hartley's In The 80's and Ale Tales.  Great to see you all and to hear so many nice comments about what we have been doing and enjoying Ste Tyson and Simon Norfolk's Starange Brew tune selection.. Here are a couple of photos from the early part of the day, with Nigel and Val from our hosts Homes For Ulverston CLT setting out the stall, and some of our visitors and contributors inside watching our slide show on the pub screen.  Remember, our exhibition is at the Sir John Barrow Cottage, opening days are  Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and this weekend we'll be open Saturday too.  And, also from Nigel,  here at the foot of the page are a couple of appendages that anyone who worked in the Brewery will  recognise and probably had to clean... Thanks again one and all, and especially to the Hope for having us.

  Two events today... we launch Nigel Saul's book of photographs Hartley's In The 80's and our Boxed Set of Ale Tales beermats at the Hope And Anchor from 3pm, and Nigel's photos are on the walls of the  Sir John Barrow Cottage from this morning.  There's no charge for the book, Nigel's photos have been an enormous and unexpected boost to this project, so think of it as a thank-you from us that will make its way around the town and the pubs, into the local archives and Brewing history groups, to exiled locals and Hartley's aficionados elsewhere...The Beermats are £5 for the boxed set, and anything we make there will go into the next project.   SAs you see below, The Cottage is a great setting for this work, and its very good to commemorate one Ulverston institution within the walls of another. The Cottage opens its doors on fridays and sundays. There'll be further open days between now and the end of July while Nigel's work is up, we'll keep you ...

  Sophie was the first person to get in touch with us, she sent a painting of her Dad at work which drew a lot of comments and helped get us started. Sophie's Dad Danny worked at Hartley's for 14 years. He was a keen historian, and would have been a real asset to this project.   Here is Sophie's Dad, caught by Nigel Saul's camera in the Mash Tun,and here is Sophie in her own words and those of her family... https://soundcloud.com/homebrew-heritage/sets/sophie-birtwistle Its good to wrap up this stage of our project about Hartley's and Ulverston with a look back at someone who made a real contribution to his workplace and his town and who is remembered by so many with great fondness and a smile.  Remember, Nigel's exhibition at the Sir John Barrow Cottage opens  this sunday June 27th, and his photo book will make its first appearance at the Hope And Anchor on the same day. The photos will be on screen indoors from 3 to 5, we'll be around, and in the backgroun...

This message came from Christine McKenna, whose Grandfather was Company Secretary and Managing Director at  Hartley's after WW2.  This is a really evocative account of Christine's visits to the Brewery as a young girl. Our photo shows a much earlier photo of Ulverston Market Cross with the Big Kings - known as the Klondike- in the background. Many thanks, Christine, A fri end sent me your post regarding gaining information for your project on the brewery. Both my Grandfather & Mother worked for Hartley's Brewery. My grandparents, Irving & Lily Wright managed Hartley's pubs in Urswick & Flookburgh when my mum was young. Eventually they asked the Brewery to refurbish the Kings Arms Hotel in Ulverston, as it was run down & they managed that for a few years, including during the war, when teachers accompanying evacuated children, were staying with them.  My Grandfather then worked for the brewery in the offices, as did my Mum eventually. Mum was Secretary to...

 Hello, we are gradually easing towards the closing date of the project and I'm glad to announce a couple of events during the coming weeks.  On June 27th we will meet in the garden of  the Hope And Anchor on Daltongate at 3pm to launch Hartley's In The 1980's, a small book of Nigel Saul's photographs of his Hartley's workmates and of various nooks and crannies on the site.  Hopefully we'll also have our commemorative beermat selection  based on bottle labels donated by John Raisbeck and Allan and Anne Bolton. A slide show of Nigel's work will be rolling on the screen in the pub's back room.  This is quite short and will run continuously so everyone who wants to should be able to see it without any crowding, as we want you to remain safe, and  to help us follow the current safety restrictions. Ste Tyson will be in the Hope garden from 5-7 with a gentle DJ set called Strange Brew to  underscore a few drinks and  some conversation at the end of...

 Todays interviewee is known to all as Baff...for reasons that will be become clear.  Baff is a familiar face on either side of the Bars of Ulverston, and he has some cracking stories concerning impromptu cabaret in the Braddylls, childhood experiments with gravity and the question of how well Hartley's "travelled.." in less than ideal conditions. https://soundcloud.com/homebrew-heritage/sets/baff Many thanks Baff.

Steve Atkinson worked on the last Brew at Hartley's. H ere he tells us of his working day, and shares  his memories of workmates and the atmosphere around the place in the 80s and in the latter months.  https://soundcloud.com/homebrew-heritage/sets/steve-atkinson There's also a shot from the Evening Mail of Steve and his workmates, and another - below- of a bottle from that last brew, supplied by Anita from the Ulverston Brewing Company. Keep an eye out for announcements of events and publications from this project, and there are more interviews to come...   Many thanks to Steve for his time and for  a really interesting interview.