All recent material. As one of the functions of the Archive is to record the activities of the Branch we have a quantity of minutes, surveys, diaries and associated paperwork. All of it unsorted at present. As many local people will know the main activity of the Branch is to organise an annual beer festival. This year is the 23 rd festival and we have a file on every year, including a file on the festival that never was from 24 years ago.
Every organisation needs to keep it's members up to date with what's going on, usually a newsletter.
The Branch has been producing one since the very earliest days and we have copies of a large number of 'Beer Around 'Ere's. There are however serious gaps in the series and we feel confident that missing issues will turn up when an appeal is put out to the local members. The official newspaper of the Campaign for Real Ale. We have a complete run from 1974 onwards. These were deposited by John 'Rupert' Smith.