Eldridge, Pope & Co. Ltd

Eldridge, Pope & Co. Ltd, Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset.

Founded 1837 when Charles Eldridge leased the Dragon Brewery, Ackland Road/Durngate Street (closed 1883).

Dorchester Brewery opened 1880. Registered May 1897 with 74 public houses.

Pub estate sold 1997 and management buy-out followed by merger in 1998 with Burtonwood Brewery Co.(Forshaws) Ltd. Trading as Thomas Hardy Brewery, the brewery closed in 2003.

Masons Brewery, Dorchester, once owned by Eldridge Pope.

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The following images were taken on a BHS Visit in 2002.

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