Halesworth Brewery: Difference between revisions

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An Ordnance Survey extract from 1883. "Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland" http://maps.nls.uk/index.html

Halesworth Brewery, 11 Market Place, Halesworth, Suffolk.

Founded before 1770 by the Reeve family.

In February 1884 Croft & Flick partnership dissolved here and elsewhere and in 1886 Harwood’s Halesworth Brewery moved to Eye.

Then from 1888 to 1925 held by the Colchester Brewing Co. Ltd, but damaged by fire in 1921.

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 [[File:HalesworthBrewery_OS1883.jpg|thumb|An Ordnance Survey extract from 1883. "Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland" http://maps.nls.uk/index.html]]
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 <big>'''Halesworth Brewery''', ''11 Market Place, Halesworth, Suffolk.''</big>
-John Carbery Evans & Co; then George & Co; then Croft & Flick.
+Founded before 1770 by the Reeve family.
-Founded 1770. 1868: Thompson George and Stanford. Flick married into the Stanford family which had been in partnership with Thompson George. Flick seems to have been a financier involved with several East Anglian breweries. Then Croft & Flick were brewers, maltsters, wine & spirit merchants and coal & lime merchants.
-In 1886 they merged with [[Bridges, Cuthbert & Co Ltd]]'s Falcon Brewery of Ipswich to form the '''Norfolk & Suffolk Brewery Co Ltd'''. That year they were building a new steam brewery at Eye. [[Colchester Brewing Co. Ltd]] had an option to purchase the 18-quarter brewery in 1888 with 61 freehold and 12 leasehold houses.
-Brewing continued until 1925 when [[Ind Coope Ltd]] acquired the Colchester Brewing Co.
+In February 1884 Croft & Flick partnership dissolved here and elsewhere and in 1886 Harwood’s Halesworth Brewery moved to  Eye.
+Then from 1888 to 1925 held by the [[Colchester Brewing Co. Ltd]], but damaged by fire in 1921.
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