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[[Image: | [[Image:Tredgar_2.jpg|thumb|The brewery in 1900.]] | ||
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<big>'''Hereford & Tredegar Brewery Ltd''', ''Imperial Brewery, Bewell Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.''</big> | |||
Around 1858 he bought the Hereford Brewery in Bewell Street, previously J C Reynolds, which he then renamed the Imperial Brewery, also using Sunlight Brewery as mainly a brand name | Charles Watkins started in Eign Street as an innkeeper then c.1850 moved to the Imperial Inn, Widemarsh Street, which had a brewhouse. Around 1858 he bought the Hereford Brewery in Bewell Street, previously J C Reynolds, which he then renamed the Imperial Brewery, also using Sunlight Brewery as mainly a brand name. On his retirement in 1898 he sold the firm to the Tredegar Brewery Co. | ||
Registered August 1899 as the Tredegar & Hereford Brewery Co. Ltd. Under the control of Allsopps 1899-1902. | |||
Acquired by the [[Cheltenham Original Brewery Co. Ltd]]. 1945 who then changed their name to Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries Ltd. Many of the public houses were sold to [[Rhymney Breweries Ltd]]. Brewing ceased at Hereford 1960. Demolished for a supermarket. | |||
* '''[[List of Charles Watkins pubs]]''' | |||
'''The brewery features in The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland by Alfred Barnard published 1890''' | |||
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'''Adverts and labels''' | |||
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[[File:Hereford_old_enamel_sign_24_August_2017.JPG|thumb|Courtesy Roy Denison]] | |||
[[Image:Tredgar_11.jpg|thumb|An advert from 1851.]] | |||
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Revision as of 18:04, 21 August 2021
Hereford & Tredegar Brewery Ltd, Imperial Brewery, Bewell Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.
Charles Watkins started in Eign Street as an innkeeper then c.1850 moved to the Imperial Inn, Widemarsh Street, which had a brewhouse. Around 1858 he bought the Hereford Brewery in Bewell Street, previously J C Reynolds, which he then renamed the Imperial Brewery, also using Sunlight Brewery as mainly a brand name. On his retirement in 1898 he sold the firm to the Tredegar Brewery Co.
Registered August 1899 as the Tredegar & Hereford Brewery Co. Ltd. Under the control of Allsopps 1899-1902.
Acquired by the Cheltenham Original Brewery Co. Ltd. 1945 who then changed their name to Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries Ltd. Many of the public houses were sold to Rhymney Breweries Ltd. Brewing ceased at Hereford 1960. Demolished for a supermarket.
The brewery features in The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland by Alfred Barnard published 1890
Adverts and labels
An advert from 1851
An advert from 1859.
An advert from 1950s.
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