Meetings
2023 Meetings
London Charity Beermat Collector’s Meeting
Saturday January 28th 2023 at The Buckingham Arms, London 12-5pm
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NATIONAL MEETING 2022
This has now been rearranged for Friday 3rd March 2023 at the Town Hall, Burton-upon-Trent.
Below is the original list of Mats for each auction, which shouldn’t change. We will keep details of anyone that sent in postal
bids and they will transfer over to this auction unless the bidder notifies us of any changes they wish to put into place.
Full timings for the meeting will also appear here.
NATIONAL AUCTION 2022
Auction 1.
Ansells 2
Barnsley 48
Belhaven 1
Beverley 25
Boston Ex. 1
Buckleys 2
Camerons 24
Catterall & S 28
Coniston 33-36
Darleys 1
Duttons 8
J.W. Fryer 5
Hartleys 6
Holes 14
Ind Coope 100
Loddon 2
Melbourne 10
Moorfields 17
Newcastle 34
Purple Moose 1
Sam Smith 72
Taylor Walker 5
Tirrill 2
Watneys 132
Wooden Hand 1
Auction 2
Allendale 4
Basehouse 1
Bents 22
Birkenhead 9
Bodicote 1
Burts 2
Catterall & S 101
Chelsea 1
Copper Dragon 12
Courage B & S 66
Eldridge Pope 7
Hammonds 12
Hartleys Crown 3
Hull 87
Ind Coope 251
Mansfield 32
Mitchell Krause 1
Moorfields 174
J.W. Paddey 1
R.W. Randall 2
Stroud (new) 8
Taylor Walker 6
Trumans 55
Watneys 93
Wm. Younger 68
Auction 3.
Back St. Heroes 1
Barnsley 60
Bentleys (Old) 4
Birkenhead 11
Brains 7
Buckleys 6
Catterall & S 62
Cherrys 29
Coniston 58
Dales 4
Ely 7
Hammonds 105
Heart of Wales 1
Higsons (New) 1-3
Ind Coope 124
Marstons 35
M & B 41
Moorfields 28
J.W. Paddey 2
Skol 18
Stroud (New) 10
Thwaites 15
Ulster 1
Watneys 18
Worksop 4
Auction 4 (Giant Mats)
Bass 365
Beamish 177
Border 66
M. Brown 48
Castle Eden 7
Davenports 13
Duttons 59
Evan Evans 6
Mackeson 210
Maclay 49
Morrells 9
Robinson 20
S & N 7
Theakstons 52
Threlfalls 36
T. Usher 9
Usher (Wilts) 21
P Walker 60
C Wells 13
Wilsons 71
Auction 5
Ballingalls 2
Bass 15
Bernards 3
Big Lamp 1
Bruces 21
Buckleys 5
Catterall & S 50
Cobbold 4
Coniston 59
Devenish 9
Firkin 406
Hammonds 16
Hemingways 7
Ind Coope 102
LA Colinette 1
McEwans 5
Moorfields 190
Moors & Robson 9
Morland 3
Skol 42
Swales 3
T Usher 50
Usher (Wilts) 3
Whitbread 273
J. Young 1
Auction 6
Barnsley 23
Batemans 9
Beverleys 9
Boddingtons 23
Calders 7
Camerons 14
Catterall & S 59
Cobbold 3
J. Deuchar 8
Ely 5
Firkin 363
Free Traders 10
Henty & Con. 1
Ind Coope 270
Maclays 5
Moles 1
Moorfields 99
Morisons 1
Penrhos 2
Red Tower 8
Style & Winch 5
Watney 17
Welsh 35
Whitbread 283
JJ Young 4
Auction 7 (Pre War Auction)
Arrols 4
Barclays 5
Bass 9
Bentleys 4
Birkenhead 2
Cheltenham 1
Chester North. 1
Darleys 41
J Deuchar 2
Hammonds (Brad) 4
Ind Coope & A. 1
Ind Coope & A. 4
Marstons 2
Masseys (giant) 3
Phipps 3
S & N 1
Sam Smiths 65
Tadcaster 5
Tetley 112
P Walker 1
Watneys 7
Wells & Winch 23
Worthington 1
Worthington 8
Wrexham 1
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The Society organises several meetings across the country each year, along with it’s main “National Meeting” which usually takes place at a different venue each September. Any member can organise a local meeting and the Society will support you by providing any brand new and recent issues it has received along with a selection of mats to be used in an auction. If you are interested in organising and holding a local meeting the contact us via the contacts form. We will get back to you and liaise with you about your needs and how we can support you.
So what happens at a meeting ? Well, usually the organiser will find a suitable venue, often a pub or a club that has enough room for c30-50 members along with space to spread “new issue” mats out on tables. Members usually arrive well before the start time and a signing-in list is maintained with members signing in as soon as they arrive. Nearly every member brings a bag of spare mats that they don’t want and a “drop-out” area is created where members just put all these mats. Anyone can delve through this growing pile anytime during the meeting and freely take anything they want – it’s a great way for newcomers to build up a collection.
Lots of intense swapping takes place between members and if you find yourself with a mat that other members are looking for you’ll soon find yourself with lots of swap offers. Members chat and swap and talk all things beermats throughout the meeting…..it’s all very informal.
The only formal parts are when someone announces the new issues are ready and members go up and pick through all the mats they want – at this stage, usually due to the extremely limited numbers of each copy, members can have 1 of each of the mats. Members go and choose in the order they signed in, the earliest members getting the first pick – often useful if there’s only a very small number of some of the mats !! Once every signed in member has had their turn, if there’s any left any member wanting extra copies can go and get some more.
Once the new issues has finished, someone will run an auction of the older and rarer mats that have been supplied by the Society. There’s usually a list available giving details of the mats and their respective catalogue number. Members get the opportunity to openly bid for any mat that they want – some go for pence……some go for pounds. More often than not there’s a raffle ticket sale ongoing throughout the day, usually beer related prizes with all monies going to a local charity of the venue.
All in all, meetings are well worth going to – you’ll be made very welcome as a new member and if you let the organiser know you’re coming they’ll probably give you lots of mats that remain at the end of the drop-out. You’ll meet lots of like-minded collectors, local contacts and often friends for life.
