Desert Island Labels

So here they come, in no particular order. I was born in Gillingham. Best football team in Kent, and lived in Strood until I was 12 years old. My father …

In my mid-teen years, I had a Sunday job with a national Ice Cream company. A van took us to Maidstone, where we were dropped off with our ‘Stop me …

No prizes for guessing why this is here. The brewery was close to the centre of Bury not far from the Crown Brewery. There are still plenty of reminders of …

I worked for 25 years in Leigh. From the time my interest in old breweries and label collecting had begun I visited the remains of the brewery on more than …

I started collecting in the early 80s after I bought a large box full of labels from a junk shop in Rochester. Several thousand labels from the United States, Eastern …

I lived for a number of years in Rawtenstall. John Baxters Brewery had been situated about a mile away in Waterfoot until purchased and closed by Beverley Brothers of Wakefield …

I can’t believe we are on seven already. The Tadcaster Tower Brewery was the first brewery I visited in the 1970s. I can’t remember who organised it or who I …

In the 1970s I played a lot of chess. We had a pub team at the Albert Inn in Rusholme. There were a couple of really good players, but I …

I moved to Manchester in 1965. One of the pubs visited regularly was the Lower Turks Head in Withy Grove. For many years I didn’t know what the MB above …