This web site updated 28th JULY 2010

Welcome to the Home Page of  the Friends of Highgate Brewery

 

DONATIONS

 

Anyone wishing to donate to the Fighting Fund,please send cheque's etc to the Treasurer

Kenneth White,316 Birmingham Road,Walsall. WS5 3NE

 

Payable to “Friends of Highgate Brewery”

THE MINUTES OF THE OPEN MEETING IN THE TOWN HALL ARE ON THE “MINUTES PAGES”

 

Our next public meeting  is scheduled for :

Tuesday 14th September 2010,

7:30pm - 9:30pm at

St Matthew's Centre (Lower Hall)
St Matthew's Close
Walsall
West Midlands
WS1 3DG
Please do your best to attend.

 

Dear Friends of Highgate Brewery Members

 

 

 

Re: Highgate and Davenports Brewery Administration

History

As I’m sure most of you will have heard by now Highgate and Davenports Brewery went into administration on 14th June 2010, for the second time in 9 months, making all brewery employees redundant. Firstly I would like to send them all my sincere commiserations and wish them luck for the future.

 

The timing was particularly unfortunate for us, as after contacting the administrators, who refused permission for us to use the visitors lounge for our open meeting that evening, I had only two hours to rearrange the venue to the White Lion, Sandwell St and contact as many of you as I could.

 

I was encouraged by the support given by the large number of you that attended that meeting and hope this will continue throughout the difficult months ahead.

Thanks to licensee Jason and Hannah for accommodating us at such short notice and to Dave Wilkinson for informing me of the situation and posting a note on the brewery gate to catch anyone I had missed.

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I have been asked to emphasise the fact that the venue for our

next public meeting is different to our last public meeting.
WE ARE NOT MEETING AT THE TOWN HALL AGAIN as it cost nearly £400 to hold the last meeting there.
This is opposite St Matthew's church, which is the large church with the black spire, on top of the hill at the end of the market in Walsall town centre.
You access it from Birmingham St, passing through the arch to St Matthew's Close (next to the old 'Duke of Wellington' pub) and the entrance is then on your right hand side.
Its a much smaller venue but it will only cost us £30.
 

Hope to see you all there.