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I am tracing some family, and have found my fathers uncle was Bill Monk who was head brewer at the state brewary. If anyone can give me any information I would be very grateful. [email protected]

Hi, I'm the original author of this piece, but unfortunately I haven't a clue how you'd go about finding out anything about ex-employees of the brewery.

The only thoughts I had would be to try either Carlisle Museum, Tullie House, Castle St., Carlisle or the local newspaper (http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/default.aspx) to see if they've got anything on your great-uncle in their archives.

Hmmm... A quick google though and I did come up with something quite interesting...

A reference to the Derwent Brewery, Silloth...

http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewery/89 (Address is on the page)

Now, I've found references to a few of their beers, among which are Bill Monks 4.3%
Carlisle State 3.7%
Carlisle State Export 4.7%

You could try contacting them, presumably, if they've named beers after both Bill Monks and the State Brewery, they might have more information on both...

Good luck

Thanks for your help! I have found photos of him intresting enougth!..intresting to my father and I are orginally from Cheshire, Ijust happened to move here recently! The search goes on... Thanks for your links to! http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/photos/Details.aspx?id=61383&category=769