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
- 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)