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[[Image: | [[Image:Tredgar_2.jpg|thumb|The brewery in 1900.]] | ||
[[Image: | [[Image:Tredgar_1.jpg|thumb|The brewery in 1900.]] | ||
[[File: | [[File:HerefordSunlightBry.jpg|thumb|Sunlight Brewery]] | ||
<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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Image:Tredgar 10.jpg | Image:Tredgar 10.jpg|An advert from 1851 | ||
Image:Russell 1.jpg|An advert from 1859 | Image:Russell 1.jpg|An advert from 1859 | ||
Image:Hereford 51.jpg|An advert from 1950s. | Image:Hereford 51.jpg|An advert from 1950s | ||
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File:Hereford & Tredegar label cv.jpg | |||
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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Latest revision as of 18:09, 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
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