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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: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, Sunlight | 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. | 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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File:Watkins Hereford 3.jpg | |||
File:Watkins Hereford 2.jpg | |||
File:Watkins Hereford 1.jpg | |||
File:Watkins Hereford 4.jpg | |||
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'''Adverts and labels''' | |||
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Image:Tredgar 10.jpg|An advert from 1851 | |||
Image:Russell 1.jpg|An advert from 1859 | |||
Image:Hereford 51.jpg|An advert from 1950s | |||
File:Hereford & Tregar labels ax (1).jpeg | |||
File:Hereford & Tregar labels ax (1).jpg | |||
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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{{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 | |||
|regno2 = 46,915|desc2=Words "National Household Ales"|date2=19/8/1885|seventy2=NO | |||
|regno3 = 51,136|desc3=Label National Dinner Ale|date3=16/2/1886|seventy3=1 years | |||
|regno4 = 72,794|desc4=Label design for lemonade|date4=30/8/1888|seventy4=NO}} | |||
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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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