D-EXP/P/D8B/70 26 Jul 1990 Wolverhampton Archives
A project to develop a new keg-filling and storage plant was under way. The photograph shows Edwin Thompson with the foundation stone.
D-EXP/P/D8B/79 22 May 1991 Wolverhampton Archives
Joe (left) and Peter (right) Hill and John Drew (centre) from the Old Crown in Great Bridge, who held the Guiness Record for visiting the most pubs, were invited to test the brewery’s new Sample Room.
D-EXP/P/D8B/83 18 Jul 1991 Wolverhampton Archives
West Midlands members of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), headed by Labour Councillor Bob Jones of the Save Springfield committee, handed in a petition against the closure of the brewery in Grimstone Street. John Reynolds is mentioned. The photograph sh
D-EXP/P/D8B/99 6 Oct 1993 Wolverhampton Archives
15 employees were planning to roll a brewing tub/barrel to Blackpool as part of Springfield Lions club to raise money for Walsall’s Rainbow House Children’s Hospice. The photograph shows Mac Housley, Bill Wall< John Powis and Carl McInerney.
D-EXP/P/D8B/101 15 Oct 1993 Wolverhampton Archives
A new television programme, Five Thousand Gates, presented by Michael Caplan, featured the British countryside, from Edinburgh to London, and Banks’s brewery was due to play a key role in the programme, to be shown on BB2. The photograph shows Diane Fish
D-EXP/P/D8B/82 18 Jul 1991 Wolverhampton Archives
The Express & Star ran a competition for people to compose a lyric for a Banks’s advert, with the eight winners receiving a ghetto blaster each. The photograph shows (from front) Margaret Wright of Claerwen Avenue in Stourport-on-Severn, Mary Wells of Wan