Cosham Steam Brewery

Cosham Steam Brewery, George & Dragon, High Street, Cosham, Hampshire

Cosham, on the mainland immediately north of Portsea Island (now part of the City of Portsmouth), was a little village on the important London to Portsmouth turnpike road which formed Cosham's High Street. Amongst a number of coaching inns was the George (later the George and Dragon) which in 1859 was bought by Jane King who had just succeeded her late husband James as brewer at the aptly named King's Head in nearby Hilsea. After the King's Head burned down, Mrs King built the Cosham Brewery on a piece of ground behind the George and Dragon. After her death the brewery was bought by Thomas Henley Canning (in 1877) who in turn sold it to George Henry Dean in 1882.