WINNING NAME REVEALED FOR BASS SCHEME Clanmil Housing Association’s new housing development at the former Bass Brewery site on the Glen Road has been named Caffrey Hill thanks to two creative local school boys. Earlier this year Clanmil approached local schools, community groups and former brewery workers in search of an imaginative name for the development, which will provide 166 much needed new social homes, along with retail units and office accommodation, when it is completed in Autumn 2012. Caffrey Hill, which was suggested by Michael Rooney from Holy Child Primary School and Caolan McLaughlin, a pupil at St Mary’s Grammar School, was chosen from over 300 entries by a panel of local people. The panel felt that Caffrey Hill best reflected both the site’s hill side location and its history - a brewery was founded there in 1897 by Thomas R Caffrey Clanmil Press Release, 27 October 2011. "Thomas Richard Caffrey, on reaching his 21st birthday, went – or was sent – to be trained in a Belfast brewery which had been owned by a man called Clotworthy Dobbin. Clotworthy and his eponymous son had died in 1854 and 1858 respectively. It seems that none of his four remaining sons were inclined, or able to continue the business. Here, Thomas met Mary Josephine, the youngest daughter of Clotworthy and his wife Mary (néé Warren). Two years later, he and Mary were married. In time, Thomas took over the brewery and it was rebuilt on its present day site on the Glen Road in West Belfast. In 1900, Thomas completed his house, “Airfield”, on the land to the north side of the brewery". (Caffrey, website).