Brown Brothers
Brown Brothers, 61 Bridge Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire.
For 1886-1892 Brown & Barker are shown at the Springfield Brewery, 4 Wellington Street, Yeadon.
Malcolm Toft writes:-
Springfield Brewery, End of Otley Lane, Yeadon, Leeds.
Springfield Tannery 1840s
George Kenion, Springfield House, tanner 1841
Tannery for sale 1857
Kenion died December 1857
Adverts for sale of property June 1858
Edward Battye advertising tanning equipment for sale February 1859.
Census 1861 E. Battye, born 1836, seedsman & farmer 10 acres, mother, wife, etc.
January 1863 Battye beer advert.
White’s Directory of Leeds, Bradford & District 1870 – Richard Charlesworth Battye & Edward, brewers, Yeadon Brewery.
1878 Edwin Hewitt & Co; brewers, Doncaster
May 1879 Springfield Brewery, Edwin Hewitt.
E. Hewitt, The Brewery, Yeadon.
Edwin Hewitt took William Brown as partner about May 1880. Hewitt and Brown, The Brewery, Yeadon.
April 1880 Battye, wine & spirit merchants, Leeds.
Trade directory 1881 – Richard Charlesworth Battye, 30, Guildford Street, Leeds.
Census 1881 Springfield House, William Brown, wife & male, female servant.
The London Gazette, 22 February 1881, issue 24941 page 816:-
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Edwin Hewitt and William Brown, carrying on the business of Brewers, at Yeadon, near Leeds, in the county of York, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due and owing to or by the said partnership will be paid and received by William Brown.— Witness our hands this 12th day of February, 1881. Edwin Hewitt. William Brown
15 February 1881 Edwin Hewitt died suddenly at his home Cooper House, Kirkstall. His wife Rebecca Hewitt passed the entail of his estate to William Brown and went to live at Ordsall, Retford.
The estate included the Springfield Brewery and associated public houses.
William Brown was joined in the business by William Grisdale Barker in 1886.
1886 Advertising Brown and Barker, The Brewery, Yeadon. Celebrated East India Pale, Strong and Mild Ales, Porter and Stout.
Within a year or so they were advertising wholesale bottling of Bass and Guinness and producing mineral waters.
1889 Leeds stores Midland Hotel (later Central Station), 4, Wellington Street (88 in 1929?). Agents for P. B. Burgoyne’s Australian wines.
Around 1889-1890 William Brown and William Grisdale Barker became partners in Whitaker & Co. Ltd. The Old Brewery, Bradford. They owned 13 licensed houses.
W. Brown and W. G. Barker attended Matthew William Thompson’s funeral, owner of Whitaker & Co. Ltd, The Old Brewery, Bradford.
Census 1891 Springhead, no brewery marked on the map. Peate, Scotsman, a commercial traveller residing at the property.
1891 directory William Brown (Wm Whitaker & Co) residence 13, Oak Villas, Bradford.
1891 directory William Grisdale Barker (Whitaker & Co. Ltd) Oxford Road, Guiseley.
In 1893 William Grisdale Barker, from Lincolnshire, married Florence Kate Dawson of Guiseley
1898 directory, William Brown, Normandy Villa, 1, Moorhead Lane, Shipley.
1911 Williamm Brown, 23, Victoria Park, Shipley, Managing Director, brewery.
Leeds Mercury 5/12/1914 Obituary (9 lines) William Grisdale Barker – Eight years president of the Guiseley Conservative Club, one time Capt. Guiseley Volunteers. Similar piece in Yorkshire Post
William Brown died August 1924 Obituary Shipley Times & Express Friday 29 August 1924