Eldridge, Pope & Co. Ltd
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Eldridge, Pope & Co. Ltd, Weymouth Avenue. , Dorchester , Dorset .
Founded 1837 when Charles Eldridge leased the Dragon Brewery, Ackland Road/Durngate Street (closed 1883). Dorchester Brewery opened 1880. Registered May 1897 with 74 public houses.
Pub estate sold 1997 and management buy-out followed by merger in 1998 with Burtonwood Brewery Co.(Forshaws) Ltd. Trading as Thomas Hardy Brewery, the brewery closed in 2003.