Fans of real ale will be welcomed to the National Waterways Museum in October when it hosts a three day beer festival.
The festival, organised in conjunction with Titanic Brewery, will run from Friday October 12 to Sunday October 14 and will showcase a range of real ales with canal and waterways connections from across the country.
Oliver Briscoe, Marketing Manager at the Museum, said: “Our first beer festival last year was a great event and we’re looking forwards to repeating it. We’re busy putting together a list of great ale from the canal network, using brewers from canalside locations and classic canal towns.”
The Museum has good public transport links, being only a few minutes signposted walk from the railway station and for groups who have organised a designated driver the museum is just off junction 9 of the M53. Moorings for the weekend are available.
Tickets are now on sale at the Museum at just £10 – which gets visitors to the festival entry to the museum, a programme and enough tokens for four pints of real ale.
The festival will be open on Friday 12 from 2pm to 11pm, Saturday 13 from 2pm to 11pm and on Sunday 14 from 2pm to 5pm.
And an added bonus on Sunday 14 October will be the homecoming ceremony of the narrowboat Ilkeston which has been on display at the London Canal Museum since August. She has been showcasing the skills and work of the museum’s Heritage Boatyard.
The National Waterways Museum, at Ellesmere Port, is home to the national collection of historic working boats, some of which visitors can board to explore and find out how the working boat people used to live. The Museum also has a trip boat, hands-on exhibits, films, touch-screen displays, stables, a blacksmith, docks, pump houses, workers cottages and gardens, an archive, a soft play area, Museum shop and cafe. For more information call 0151 355 5017 or visit www.nwm.org.uk Annual passes for the museum are available, please ask at reception.
