[Closed] Thwaites no more

I heard it had become a holiday camp

You can stay, but you just can’t leave ...

Bit of an alarmist headline there OP. Thwaites will carry on production at its new HQ around 4 miles up the road

Bloody tipsies....

Sad in many ways...

As a kid our school bus was often behind the Shire Horses and carts plodding through Blackburn to deliver the beer and remains one of the memories of childhood.

Caused by having their premises vandalized.

Thanks for that Stevextc..that just rekindled a memory of the shire horses delivering to my small village pub from Vaux Breweries in Sunderland to the Coach & Horses in Annfield Plain ..another brewery long gone ..

Caused by having their premises vandalized.

Wrong. As always the media are lying. Wiki says:

"In January 2014, the company made the wrong kind of national headlines. Thwaites' proposed closure of its Star Brewery and 60 brewing redundancies led to staff temporarily switching off the H, I and E in the company's brewery sign to spell "****s".Thwaites' inability to select an alternative site for its brewery and to conclude a deal to sell its site to Sainsbury's received criticism in many areas including the local press and brewing industry. The Tandleman blog suggested that apart from the beers produced in the renowned Crafty Dan craft brewery, Thwaites would contract out production of its beers permanently to other breweries.

This proved prescient; the core beers were contracted out to Marston's and the latter company bought the top two (Wainwright's and Lancaster Bomber) and the bulk of Thwaites' beer business in March 2015 for £25.1m. Marstons will continue to supply Thwaites pubs with beer under a long-term contract whilst Thwaites will contionue to produce (much reduced) volumes for its own pubs by retaining its microbrewery facility."

The brand produced by the microbrewery is Crafty Dan. The traveller damage was light and was not what stopped production. Even the lying BBC filmed there the day after and the reporter said: "The brewery is eerily quiet since the traveller attack...." leading the gullible public to conclude that the closure was the fault of the travellers.

I don't support the travellers at all but I flippin' HATE media lies.

Let me see if I've got this right. Travellers vandalise brewery so they close it an d build a new £12m site somewhere else? Or maybe they were moving anyway 🙄

I suspect an attempt by the OP to bring back the bigots get together of the old thread