From announcement to end

MARCH 18, 2008: Coors announces museum, which costs more than £1 million a year to run, will close at end of June.

April 3: Peaceful protest march against closure.

April 4: More than 5,500 people sign up to the Burton Mailʼs campaign to ʻSave Our Heritageʼ.

Online, around 2,100 protesters put their names to the bid to prevent the Coors Visitor Centre from closing.

April 15: Following the Mailʼs Save Our Heritage campaign and intervention from the townʼs MP, Janet Dean, the brewer agrees to keep the artefacts and contents of the museum intact until the end of the year so that a rescue package can be put together.

April 22: Princess Anne gives a massive boost to the Mailʼs campaign to save Burtonʼs National Museum of Brewing from closure.

May 8: The Blue Cross Centre, in Dovecliff Road, is in talks with the Horninglow Street tourist attaction over the possibility of taking on the awardwinning shire horses if the centre closes as planned.

May 24: A 20,000-name petition is handed over to Burton MP Janet Dean, who took it to Westminster to present to Culture Minister Margaret Hodge.

May 28: Patrick Grant, of Meadow Road, wrote to Prime Minister Gordon Brown urging action to be taken to save the under threat attraction in Horninglow Street.

June 13: Last scheduled school visit to the museum from youngsters from St Modwenʼs R C Primary School, in Belvoir Road.

June 26: The Coors shires settle in well at their new home after being ʻevictedʼ from Burtonʼs museum of brewing.

August 19: The fight to save the museum wins the backing of the Government.

August 20: The museum shuts.

Aug 24: Coors bosses are locked in talks with commercial operators interested in investing in Burtonʼs brewing museum.

January 14, 2009: An action group, chaired by former Burton College principal Keith Norris, is formed to help save the museum.

February 19: Christian International Ministries Church said to be considering offer to take over centre after its Horninglow Road church burned down in November, 2008.