Gustavus Carrington & Sons
Gustavus F.Carrington & Sons, Prestwich Brewery, Prestwich, Greater Manchester.
Established 1830 by Robert Bentley at the pub.
Gustav Carrrington acquired it in 1879.
Also traded as the Prestwich Brewery in 1880 and moved to and built the Prestwich Brewery.
Gustav died in the early 1890s and much of the property was bought by John Henry Davies, of the Manchester Brewery Co. Ltd.
He closed the brewery and sold the pub lease to Holts.
The family was briefly involved with the Clarence Brewery, Hulme in 1897, (see Carrington & Sons for the Prestwich tied house estate).
List of Gustavus Carrington & Sons pubs
PRESTWICH BREWERY COMPANY by Graham Eyles
The Coach and Horses public house, built in 1830, was once a staging post for the Burnley to Manchester mail coach. The first landlord was Robert Bentley, whose family also ran the brewery which stood behind the pub. (The original railway bridge, at Bess o’th’ Barn nearby, was called Bentley Bridge).
Bentley was Prestwich's only common brewer and, as well as his own house, he supplied beer to several other public houses in the Prestwich and Whitefield area, including the Plough Inn, Rainsough, and the Black Horse and Cross Keys in Whitefield.
In 1879, the year the railway opened at Bess o’th’ Barn. Joseph Bentley (probably Robert's son) died and Bentley sold out to Gustavus F Carrington, a Jersey shipowner. The Coach and Horses was run by his sons, Leo A Carrington as landlord and Alfred and Gustavus Ernest Carrington taking control of the brewery. The brewery traded under the heading G F Carrington and Sons, Bentley Brewery.
In 1897, the Carringtons decided to sell up and an auction was held at the Thatched House Hotel on Market Street, Manchester, on 27th July.
From the deeds we learn that at this auction all the above property was purchased by John Henry Davies. He is described as an Estate Agent, but was also active in the brewing businesses of the Manchester Brewing Company and later Walker and Homfray Ltd.
On 16th December 1897, Davies sold land and the Coach and Horses lease to Edward Hold (son of Joseph Holt, the founder of Holt's Brewery). Davies had formally acquired the pub and brewery by assignments dated 1st and 2nd November 1897. In view of this very short notice time span between purchase and disposal it must be assumed that Holts had an agreement with Davies to buy the Coach and Horses at the time of the auction.
Technically, the brewery would have been owned by the Manchester Brewery Company for a matter of forty four days; it is possible, however, that Davies at the time of the auction was acting as a broker rather than in his capacity as a directory of the firm. If this was the case, then the Prestwich Brewery was never owned by the Manchester Brewery Company. It was closed down shortly afterwards and it is almost certain that the modern brewing equipment was transferred to the Manchester Brewery's premises, the Britannia Brewery on Brodie Street, Manchester.
At the auction the properties were described as follows:- “Land on the southerly side of Bury Old Road, Prestwich, containing 3,377 superficial sq yards or thereabouts, with a frontage of 110 yards 3 inches, together with the public house known as the Coach and Horses and the outbuidlings erected theron”.
The brewery was described as:- “A steam brewery, better known as Prestwich Brewery. The premises and plant are modern and comprise store cellars, working cellars, rack room, store room, engine and boiler house, malt room, hop room, cooling house, fully equipped with machinery and plant for brewing”.
The Carringtons moved to the Clarence Brewery in 1897, a few hundred yards away from the Cornbrook Brewery and was acquired by the Manchester Brewery Co Ltd in 1899.