Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd

The former Crown pub

William Butler was born in Hinckley, Leicestershire in 1843. This blue plaque is displayed on the Greyhound Inn, New Buildings, Hinckley.

Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd, Crown Brewery, 36/37 Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

Built 1880s by William Butler at rear of the Crown public house. Registered January 1895. Merged with Henry Mitchell & Co. Ltd with 130 houses in 1898 to form Mitchells & Butlers Ltd. Oddly, Whitbread & Co. Ltd listed here 1921.

The brewery buildings survived almost into the C21 before falling to the city centre redevelopment. The Crown pub still trades, but these days more of a nightclub.

• List of Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd pubs
• William Waters Butler

Views of the brewery

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  The former Crown pub

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  The former Crown pub

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  The former Crown pub

Windows

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  Butler's window at the Royal Oak, Erdington

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  Butler's window at the National Brewery Museum, Burton on Trent

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  Butler's window at the National Brewery Museum, Burton on Trent

William Butler's grave, Key Hill Cemetery, Birmingham (plot I621)

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