Dudley & South Staffordshire CAMRA

More details of the events below can be found on the Diary Dates Tab

 
May Mild Month

Wed 9th Dudley Winter Ales Fayre Meeting Park Inn, Woodsetton George Street DY1 4LW 8-00pm

Wed 9th * New date Clifton Bull Ring Sedgley DY3 1RX meet the brewer LYMESTONE

Sat 12th Annual West Mids CAMRA Mild in May Day guided pub crawl in Shrewsbury starting noon

Sat-Sun 12-13th *Ludlow Food & Drink Festival, Ludlow Castle, SY8 1AY Friday evening meet the brewer
 
Fri-Sun 25-27th *Jolly Crispin Cider Festival, Upper Gornal, DY3 1UL

Sat 26th Kinver Brewery beer delivery by horse & dray around Kinver  

Sat 26th BLO reports deadline

Mon 28th Branch Meeting Bull & Bladder Delph Road Brierley Hill, DY5 2TZ 8-00pm

Wed 30th Lower Gornal scoring social route to be confirmed

Wed 30th *The Bs live music from the sixties, seventies & eighties Court House New Street Dudley DY1 1LP 8-30pm
 
     
Events later in the year are highlighted on the diary page.

Photograph 1

Lot 16 Millards Home Brewed Ales, Gipsies Tent, Dudley, beer mat.
Lot 28 Pair of cuff links featuring tankards with a dragon motif.
Lot 37 Boxed set of six beer mats with Black Country tales to commemorate the opening of the Holt, Plant and Deakin brewery, Oldbury, September 27th 1984.
Lot 40 Wade water jug advertising Mitchells and Butlers.

Photograph 2

Lot 11 5 Mitchells of Lancaster bottle labels. 2 x City Brown Ale, 1 each No. 4, Oatmeal Stout, and City Pale Ale.
Lot 29 Brass ash tray advertising Greenall Whitley’s Wilderspool Ales.
Lot 35 2 miniature bottles advertisinf Gaymer’s and Whiteway’s cider.
Lot 50 Album of postcards featuring pubs around the country.

Photograph 3

Lot 18 0.5 litre boot shaped glass. Be careful drinking out of it!
Lot 27 Half pint, brim measured, handled glass from Dudley Beer Festival 1990, celebrating our coal mining heritage and features pit head gear.
Lot 41Pint, brim measure handled glass bearing the logo of Simpkiss Brewery.
Lot 47 Show card for Holden’s Traditional Black Country Ales.
Lot 54 Show card advertising Simpkiss’ Traditional Black Country Old Ale on Draught.
 

Photograph 4

Lot 30 33cl bottle of Royal Thomas Hardy’s Ale brewed by Eldridge Pope in 1983.
Lot 42 Pint bottle of Whitbread Celebration Ale, 1992. At 11.5 % this strong beer was bottled to celebrate 250 years of brewing by the company. It is wrapped in paper with a seal (unbroken), and the cover states that he should continue to mature for twenty years.
Lot 56 275ml bottle of Sarah Hughes Dark Ruby 1st Brew, 1995, signed by John Hughes.

Photograph 5

Lot 14 Melamine Highgate Mild Ale ash tray.
Lot 19 Book – ‘Local Brew’ by Mike Dunn. First published in 1986. A very interesting book about Traditional Breweries and their ales.
Lot 51 Two metal Banks’s pump clips one each Mild and Bitter.

Photograph 6

Lot 59 Framed poster for MAD O’Rourke’s Little Pub Company, showing its 14 pubs as of 1995.

Photograph 7

Lot 25 Set of 4 Titanic brewery coffee mugs and milk jug.