BREWING RECORDS APPEAL

How Do All ,

A Non Beery Info Post today ;

  As a few of you may know , I`m very interested in tracing brewing production records from 

Various breweries in the north of England * .

  

  After a fairly exhaustive search , 

I`ve been unable to locate quite a number of records of  interest from a number of breweries 

I`ve been trying to trace for over 5 Years !!!

 Though I`ve made a thorough search of the catalogues of publicly available archives ,

I `ve  been unable to locate a great many brewer`s production records , with records from  some breweries surviving, though the Brewing Records may have been separated from other archives ;

 So if any readers are able to assist with access to or , 

By sending photos of brewing production records ;

 Please get in touch with me , I`d love to hear from you .

   Here`s a Non Exhaustive List of some of the brewer`s records I`m attempting to trace ;

1922 Photo of ` Matty`s ` Pole St Brewery from ;
https://www.mylancs.uk

                          Photo taken during preperations for the 1922 Preston Guild  Merchant

                                                                 LANCASHIRE
Bent`s Brewery Co Ltd                                            H . C Breakell & Co Ltd
New Brewery                                                           Victoria Brewery
Johnson Street                                                          Church Street
Liverpool                                                                  Preston
Lancashire                                                                 Lancashire
 
Bought : 1967 Bass, Mitchells & Butlers Ltd          Bought : 1947 by Caterall & Swarbrick
Ceased Brewing : March 1975                                 Ceased Brewing : Ca 1947
 
W & R Wilkins Ltd                                                  Matthew Brown Plc
Marsh Lane                                                               Lion Brewery
Longton                                                                     Blackburn
Lancashire                                                                 Lancashire
 
Bought : 1952  Groves & Whitnall Ltd                    Established : Preston in  1830
Ceased Brewing : 1952                                                                : Blackburn in 1927
                                                                 Bought : 1987  Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Plc
                                                                             Ceased Brewing :  Preston      1927 - 8
                                                                                                        :  Blackburn  1991

 
 W T Rothwell Ltd                                                     Yates`s Castle Brewery Co Ltd                                 Heath Brewery                                                              Castle Brewery       Castle Brewery                     Oldham Road                                                        Market Place         Fairfield St       
  Newton Heath                                                       Birkenhead           Ardwick
  Manchester                                                            Lancashire            Manchester
  Lancashire                                                                                           Lancashire
 
Bought 1961                                                                              Bought : 1961
Marston , Thompson & Evershed Ltd                     John Smith`s Tadcaster Brewery Ltd
Ceased Brewing : 1968                                                              Ceased Brewing
                                                                                  Birkenhead : 1934    Ardwick  : 1961

Mashing Room at The Lockwood Brewery Image ;
From the Brewery History Society Webpage on Bentley & Shaw Ltd

                                                               YORKSHIRE
Bentley & Shaw Ltd                                              Bentley`s Old Brewery ( Rotherham ) Ltd
Lockwood Brewery                                               Old Brewery
Bridge Street                                                          Canklow Road
Huddersfield                                                           Rotherham
West Riding                                                                          
Yorkshire
 
Bought   : 1944                                                       Bought    : 1956
Hammond`s Bradford Brewery Co Ltd                  Hammond`s Bradford Brewery Co Ltd
Ceased Brewing : 1963                                          Ceased Brewing : 1956
 
 
Thomas Ramsden & Son Ltd                                  Melbourne Brewery ( Leeds ) Ltd
Stone Trough Brewery                                            Melbourne Brewery
Commercial Street                                                   Regent St
Halifax                                                                     Leeds
West Riding                                                             West Riding
Yorkshire                                                                 Yorkshire
 
Bought  : 1964 by Allied Breweries                      Bought : 1960 by Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd
Ceased Brewing : 1964                                          Ceased Brewing : Ca  1962 - 3
 
                                                   Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd
                                                      Fountain Head Brewery
                                                            Ovenden Wood
                                                                 Halifax
                                                             West Riding
                                                               Yorkshire
 
                                            Bought : 1972 Watney Mann Ltd
                                                    Ceased Brewing :  1991
 
 
 Cheers All  🍻, 

Edd