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[[Image:Tredgar 2.jpg|thumb|The brewery in 1900.]] | [[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> | <big>'''Hereford & Tredegar Brewery Ltd, ''' '' Imperial Brewery, Bewell Street, Hereford, Herefordshire.''</big> | ||
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{{Trade Mark 4 |regno = 25,102/3/4/5|desc=Eagle with extended wings upon a rock, Eagle with extended wings upon a rock, Eagle with extended wings upon a rock, Eagle with extended wings standing on a barrel|date=25/10/1880|seventy=12 years | {{Trade Mark 4 |regno = 25,102/3/4/5|desc=Eagle with extended wings upon a rock, Eagle with extended wings upon a rock, Eagle with extended wings upon a rock, Eagle with extended wings standing on a barrel|date=25/10/1880|seventy=12 years |
Revision as of 11:39, 24 December 2018
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
Sunlight was 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.
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