Birkenhead Brewery Co. Ltd

Courtesy Roy Denison

Birkenhead Brewery Co. Ltd., New Brewery. Brewers’ Journal 15th March 1901.

Birkenhead Brewery Co. Ltd., Brewers’ Journal.

Birkenhead Brewery Co. Ltd., Brewers’ Journal.

Birkenhead Brewery Co. Ltd, Argyle Brewery, 73 Oxton Road, Birkenhead, Merseyside

Birkenhead Brewery Co. Ltd, Anchor Brewery, Livingstone Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside

Registered August 1865 as the Birkenhead Amalgamated Brewery Co. Ltd to merge:

• Aspinall's Anchor Brewery, Livingstone Street (rebuilt 1900) and
• Cook's Argyle Brewery, Oxton Road.

The Cooks also brewed at Tetbury, see N & W Cook (Tetbury).

Name changed as above March 1872. 120 tied houses. Merged with Chesters Brewery Co. Ltd in 1962.

The principal brewery in later years was the old Aspinall site which eventually ceased brewing in 1968.

• List of Birkenhead Brewery Co Ltd pubs

An assortment of views of the breweries:

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  The brewery in 1910.

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  The Anchor Brewery.

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  The remains of the Oxton Road site.

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  Close up of a plaque on the Oxton Road site.

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  The remains of the Oxton Road site.

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  Cook's Brewery.

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  On the side of the 72-76 Oxton Road offices 2008. Courtesy "Bank House Kennels."

From a visit by Mike Brown in 2019

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Various documentation and advertising:

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  The brewery's registered Trade Mark.

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  An Aspinall's advert from 1860.

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  A letter head from 1955.

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  A letter head from 1951.

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  An advert from 1890.

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  An advert from 1914

An assortment of labels etc:

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Entry in the Trade Mark Registry Registration No  : 6,675 Description  : Liver Bird on barrel Date of Application  : 16/6/1876 Used Prior to 1875?  : 10 years