The branch's second beer festival was held on Saturday evening, 15th March 1975 at the Students Union Building, Tipping Street, Stafford. Admission was limited to 300 and the beers, which included Davenports, Ruddles and Wem, were mostly just 14p a pint.

Beer 'gains' locally included Ansells Mild at the Railway, Stafford and Draught Bass in the Red Lion, Stone

Although there has been no suggestion that we are to blame, the venues for most Stafford CAMRA beer festivals have been demolished not long afterwards!

Without a suitable central site, CAMRA hasn't held a beer festival in Stafford since the branch's seventh one, which was on Saturday 23 rd February 1980 at the Borough Sports and Social Club in Chell Road. Micro-brewers were now on the scene and Lloyds of Ingleby was one of the dozen brewers represented

Many months of tireless surveying culminated in the launch, at the beer festival, of the Mid Staffs Pub Guide which sold for 50p. Its 32 pages included details of all two hundred pubs in the area and ten maps.

A long running campaign to Save the Bank House finally succeeded in March 1980 when owners Bass agreed not to close the Hixon hostelry but to sell it as a pub with a ten year tie to Bass.

The sighting of keg Springfield Bitter in the Castle Tavern, Stafford was the first local sign of the decline of the Bass owned Springfield Brewery in Wolverhampton, which had previously, just brewed proper cask conditioned beer.