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<big>'''Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd, ''''' Park Brewery, Bath Road, Wolverhampton, West Midlands.''</big>
<big>'''Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd, ''''' Park Brewery, Bath Road, Wolverhampton, West Midlands.''</big>


Registered May 1890 to amalgamate: Banks's & Co, Park Brewery, C.C.Smith, Fox Brewery, Wolverhampton, and [[George Thompson & Sons]], Dudley & Victoria Breweries, Dudley, with a total of 193 public houses.  
Banks's was a firm of 19th century malsters who started brewing in 1874 at Newbridge. They established the Park Brewery in Wolverhampton in 1875.


Acquired Marstons in 1999. The company became Marstons PLC in 2007.
In May 1890 they merged with C C Smith, Fox Brewery, Wolverhampton; and [[George Thompson & Sons]], Dudley & Victoria Breweries, Dudley, with a total of 193 public houses to form [[Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd]].  


'''An assortment of views of the brewery'''
'''An assortment of views of the brewery'''

Revision as of 16:13, 19 March 2018

Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd., New Brewery, Wolverhampton. Brewers’ Journal 15th December 1898
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Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd, Park Brewery, Bath Road, Wolverhampton, West Midlands.

Banks's was a firm of 19th century malsters who started brewing in 1874 at Newbridge. They established the Park Brewery in Wolverhampton in 1875.

In May 1890 they merged with C C Smith, Fox Brewery, Wolverhampton; and George Thompson & Sons, Dudley & Victoria Breweries, Dudley, with a total of 193 public houses to form Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd.

An assortment of views of the brewery