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I was unaware of the yearly Bass brewery day trips to seaside resorts until recently. They were designed to give workers at the Burton Brewery a day out and ran from the 1860s to just before the start of the First World War. There was no right to paid holidays until the 1930s so the excursions which visited such locations as Great Yarmouth, Blackpool and Scarborough were special occasions. It was a large scale event. As many as seventeen trains were used and 7-10,000 brewery workers got a day out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bass_Excursions#:~:text=The%20Bass%20Excursions%20were%20a%20series%20of%20works%20outings%20laid#:~:text=The%20Bass%20Excursions%20were%20a%20series%20of%20works%20outings%20laid

Details of that last 1914 trip are here:

Scarborough was the choice for the summer of 1914 in what would turn out to be the last of the company seaside trips. The trip made headlines in the Scarborough Post, suggesting that over 7000 people would be coming to town. The first train left Burton Railway Station at 3.40am, arriving at Scarborough at 7.30am. It was filled with the company blacksmiths, coppersmiths, painters, platelayers, plumbers, tailors, cloggers and wheelwrights. Trains were timetabled every 10 minutes with later departures filled with joiners, the workers from the railway department and clerks, as well the gardeners and farm workers from the Bass family estate at Rangemore. The latest train was reserved for Mr Walters and friends. William Walters was the company Railway Traffic Manager and the mastermind behind the trips.