Stan C

Hello. My grandfather, father  and several uncles and aunts worked in the brewing trade here in the North East. There have always been beer bottle labels in our family, but …

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After the war, grandfather worked at Fenwick’s Brewery, which we think was part of George Younger and Sons of Alloa. Even in the 1950s when I started to drink, there …

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Aunt Lucy had a pub in the centre of Gateshead called the Grey Nags Head. When I say she had a pub, it may be that she just worked there, …

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None of us were sure about this one. The only clue is that it was brewed in Scotland and we think that George Younger owned Fenwick’s Brewery and bottled lots …

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My father worked for quite a few companies in the North East. He was lucky to find work when he left school, there was a lot of unemployment, but his …

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One of the bottlers my father worked for must have had an arrangement or a contract with breweries on the other side of the Pennines in what used to be …

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My sister worked at the offices of the Tadcaster Tower Brewery Co in Darlington before the merger with Hammonds United. She met her husband there, he was one of those …

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Our family have always spent time together. Regular days out on the train or bus and when we could afford it, maybe a week in a guest house. The children …

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There have been several people in our family; father, uncles and great uncles who worked at the Leazes Brewery in Newcastle. It was a bit like a family. If they …

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There has been a bit of a conflict about what we use for this last post. My grandchildren were very keen to put in something from the microbreweries that they …

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