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Revision as of 11:31, 12 October 2016
Flower's Breweries Ltd, Phoenix Brewery, Park Street West, Luton, Bedfordshire.
Founded by Henry and Frederick Pearman 1857 and sold to J W Green in 1869.
Registered September 1897 as J.W.Green Ltd. The name was changed as above 1954 when Flower & Sons Ltd. of Stratford-on-Avon were acquired.
Acquired by Whitbread & Co. Ltd. 1961.
The Phoenix Brewery was closed 1969 when Whitbread's giant new brewery in Oakley Road, Luton, was opened. This in turn being closed in 1984. However, a test plant may still having been brewing at Park Street in the 1990s.
Offices remain.
List of J W Green Ltd Bedfordshire pubs
List of J W Green Ltd Buckinghamshire pubs
List of J W Green Ltd Hertfordshire pubs
An assortment of views of the brewery.
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