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Welcome to the British Beermat Collectors Society website.

Here you should find everything you want to know about our society and all things beermat collecting in the UK. You can find out our history, what we do, how we catalogue beermats, where your local meetings are, how to join, all about our prestigious beermat design annual awards and more importantly, how we raise money for charity every year.

There’s also information on beermats in general and tips on collecting and links to other sites related to brewery history or collecting breweriana.

 

Website Development

Now that the delayed 2022 National is out of the way, (thanks for coming everyone, from all feedback it has been a great success), we will be doing some revamps of our website. As such most pages will be taken down and temporary holding pages in place until the work is completed. We will keep the contact us page up and running so anyone can use the contact form there to contact us about information or advice needed, joining and mats they are disposing of. We have just 2 official BBCS meetings arranged so far this year, Stourbridge on Saturday 3rd June (details below) and the 2023 National in Burton-on-trent on Friday the 8th September.

One of the main aims of the society is to not only to promote beermat collecting in general but to support those within the beermat fraternity that collect mats. As such we are particularly pleased that one of our long standing members along with our friends at Beermatmania have set up a new meeting in Albrighton in Shropshire in May. This, coupled with the biannual London Charity meetings set up by Gary Moore are essential meetings to visit and are open to everyone, not just society members. Information on the meetings is also below.  See you all soon at one of the meetings.

Meeting information

 

 

Friday 8th September – BBCS NATIONAL 2023, Burton-on-Trent (BBCS Official meeting)

Town Hall,
King Edward Place
Burton-on-Trent
DE14 2EB

This is the Society’s large annual meeting, open to all members (anyone who isn’t a member and wants to come, just contact us via our contact form)
Tables full of new issues, drop out mats, old priced up mats from 50p plus our annual major auctions of rare mats. Access from 9:15. Full details will appear
in the lead up to the meeting.

The 2023 Auction List is as below:

Any member who can’t attend this year can submit a postal/email bid to Tony Hobson by Friday September 1st.

National Auction September 2023.

 Auction 1.

Ansells                                      38

Ayrshire                                      1

Barnsley                                   21

Basehouse                                  1

Bloxham Cole                            1

Matthew Brown                     159

C & S                                       48

Guinness                                126

Hemingway                               9

Hull                                         69

Ind Coope                              254

King & Barnes                          3

Lineman                                    1

Moorfields                            213

Penrhos                                     2

Red Tower                                8

Shaws                                       2

Sam Smith                                5

Strathcarron                              1

Tetley                                      32

Thwaites                                 41

West Berkshire                         5

Wethered                                15

Whim Ales                               1

Wilsons                                  11

 

Auction 2.

Ansells                                  161

Barnsley                                60

Bass                                      13

C & S                                    61

Guinness                             98

Hall & Woodhouse             17

Hammonds                         29

Hansons                              83

Harmans                             1

Heys                                    22

Higsons (New)                     1 to 3

Joseph Holt                         5

Hull                                     68

Ind Coope                           97

McEwans                            7

McLennan                           1

Moorfields                          45

Shepherd Neame                148

StrathcarrSam Smith          39

Steel Coulson                     4

Style & Winch                    6

Taylor Walker                    12

Tetley                                  34

Webbs                                6

Welsh                                   8

 

Auction 3.

Black Sheep                                    29

Brains                                             15

Matthew Brown                            160

Camerons                                        12

C & S                                              50

Guinness                                       125

Hall & Woodhouse                      114

Hammonds                                    12

Ind Coope                                    252

Maclays                                           5

Mitchell Krause                               1

Moorfields                                   167

Penrhos                                           3

J Rowell                                           1

Russells                                          15

Shaws                                              3

Smith & Co                                     1

Sam Smith                                       6

Tennents                                       140

Thwaites                                         42

Truemans                                        49

Ulster                                               1

Vallances                                         2

Charles Wells                               177

Welsh                                               2

 

Auction 4.

Barnsley                                   49

C & S                                       59

Copper Dragon                        13

Dares                                         2

Duttons                                     8

Eldridge Pope                         72

Ely                                            7

Firkin                                    406

Gibbs Mew                             10

Goose Eye                              11

Grand Metropolitan                 6

Guinness                               132

Hammonds                             46

Heys                                       13

Joseph Holt                              4

Inn off the Green                     6

Maltings                                   1

M & B                                    21

Moles                                       1

Moorfields                           170

Purple Moose                          1

Redemption                             2

Saxon Cross                            5

Sam Smith                             72

Steel Coulson                          5

Auction 5.

 

Ansells                                   39

Barnsley                                   5

Bunces                                   18

C & S                                     66

Darleys                                     3

Friary Meux                             5

Gibbs Mew                               1

Gilmour                                    8

  1. Green 1

Guinness                             216

Hansons                             73

Heys                                   31

Ind Coope                           62

Joules                                3

Loddon                                2

Mansfield                           114

Moorfields                          218

Murphy                               172

Offilers                               12

Oldershaw                          1

Scottish & Newcastle         39

Fred Smith                          3

Southams                            10

Style & Winch                    5

Welsh                                 35

 

Auction 6.  Pre War.

 

Aitkens                                            1

Bentley & Shaw                              8

Carter, Milner & Bird                      5

Charrington & Co                            1

Lewis Clark                                      1

Clinch                                               1

Cobbs                                               2

Dales                                                3

Friary, Holroyd & Healy                 3

Hammonds ( Bradford)                   5

Hewitt                                            13

Ind Coope & Allsopp                   454

McMullen                                        1

Offilers                                            6

C Rose                                             1

John Smith                                       6

Coulson                                             1

Tadcaster                                          3

Taylor Walker                                  2

Tetley                                              5

Vaux                                                1

Charles Wells                             157

Whitbread                                       3

Whitworths                                     1

William Younger                            2

 

 

LONDON CHARITY MEETING – Date to be confirmed, possibly November.(Open meeting, not BBCS)