Fielding & Sons

The Bradshaw Lane site. Ordnance Survey extract from 1905. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)

The Green Lane site. Ordnance Survey extract from 1905. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)

Daniel Fielding & Sons, White Castle Brewery, Green Lane, Halifax, Northowram/ Ovenden, West Yorkshire.

Daniel Fielding [1827-1892], son of Mary Fielding [1808-1873], was born in Thornton.

Originally brewing at Sowerby Bridge as Hainsworth and Fielding in partnership with Edward Hainsworth. The partnership was dissolved on 16 August 1855. "All debts due to and owing by the said co-partnership will be received and paid by the said Edward Hainsworth by whom the said business in future will be carried on."

Fielding; then Samuel Balme Fielding [1872-1945], his son, born in Bradshaw, were at the Bradshaw Row Brewery, Ovenden until 1894 when they moved to the newly built brewery nearby at Green Lane.

Acquired by Samuel Webster & Sons Ltd of Halifax in July 1961 with 19 houses and was closed. Some buildings survive as 'White Castle Court'.

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White Castle Brewery, ca.1980. Courtesy John Tee:

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