The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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Dorchester Brewery centenary
The people in the county town of Dorchester enjoy the festivities as they celebrate one hundred years of brewing beer.
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Overview
Step into Dorchester brewery and watch beer being brewed, blended and bottled for the discerning 1930s public. Then go outside and soak up the atmosphere as hundreds of people convene to celebrate the centenary of this much-loved brewing house. If you are an ale connoisseur, this film will certainly quench your thirst!
The red-brick Victorian brewery building was built in 1879 by architect W.R. Crickmay and sited next to Brunel's south coast railway line. In 1837 Charles and Sarah Eldridge bought the Green Dragon brewery. After her husband's death in 1846, it became Eldridge, Mason and Co. and in 1870 the Pope brothers renamed the company Eldridge, Pope and Co. Destroyed by fire in 1922, it was closed for three years. In 1937, its centenary year, the brewery produced a coronation beer in honour of George VI, some of which still exists to this day. Today the brewery is part of a redevelopment scheme.
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