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Theakston Sponsors New Jake Thackray Musical
T & R Theakston, the Masham-based brewer, is to sponsor a new musical stage
show celebrating the life and work of the late Jake Thackray, the internationally
acclaimed Swaledale-based singer/songwriter.
The production, “Sister Josephine Kicks the Habit,” will bring to life many of the eccentric characters created by Jake in his 30-year career during which he was once dubbed “The Yorkshire Noel Coward.”
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Happy Return for New Visitor Centre Manager
Victoria Bramley, has joined independent brewer T & R Theakston as manager of its brewery visitor centre at Masham, North Yorkshire.
It marks a happy return to the brewery for Victoria who first worked there as a tour guide during a summer vacation whilst a student at Newcastle University. The Masham-born business studies graduate has joined Theakstons after working in administration and marketing at a local animal foods firm. She also had a spell living in Cadiz, Spain.
Traditional Skills used to Recreate a Piece of History
One of the UK’s few remaining master coopers has used his traditional wooden caskmaking skills to produce a replica of a medieval water tankard which will be presented to the Water Conservators Company in the City of London.
Jonathan Manby, master cooper at T & R Theakston’s brewery in Masham, North Yorkshire, was commissioned to make a replica of the cone shaped vessels typical of those used for hundreds of years by water-bearers to distribute water in the City of London before the days of piped water.