Dudley Porter & Ale Brewery
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The Dudley Porter & Ale Brewery, Birmingham Road, Dudley, West Midlands
In 1805, a partnership of Dudley businessmen was formed to operate the first major brewery in Dudley. These were: Joseph Royle, maltster; James Bourne, solicitor; Thomas Wainwright, surgeon; and Thomas Hawkes, butcher and tanner, later the MP for Dudley. They built a new ten-quarter brewery at Birmingham Road, capable of producing 250-300 barrels a week.
It became the Old Dudley Brewery, James Bourne, Cannon & Co in 1828; then Scholefield, Young & Stephen in 1842.
Acquired by Samuel Allsopp & Sons of Burton-upon-Trent. The brewery was closed but the malthouse survived until at least 1919.