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<big>'''King's Brewery''', ''Royal Crown Brewery, Broad Street, Syresham, Northamptonshire.''</big>
<big>'''King's Brewery''', ''Royal Crown Brewery, Broad Street, Syresham, Northamptonshire.''</big>



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Courtesy Roy Denison

King's Brewery, Royal Crown Brewery, Broad Street, Syresham, Northamptonshire.

Founded c.1854 and was owned by the Linnell family until c.1890 when the Kirby family extended the premises.

Herbert King acquired it in 1900 and erected the Royal Crown Brewery in 1903.

The name was changed as above 1924. Brewing ceased after 1940 and the brewery was demolished and houses built on the site.

No tied houses - domestic trade only.


Keith Osbourne writes:- KING’S ROYAL CROWN BREWERY CO, Royal Crown Brewery, Broad Street, Syresham, near Brackley

Brewery adjoining a department store owned by the Kirby family in the 1890s; there may have been a connection with the brewery of William Linnell, which was situated at the top of Broad Street and had been established in 1854 and ceased c1899; around 1900, the brewery and stores were purchased by Herbert King (whose mother was a Kirby), and in 1903, he erected a four storey brewery; no pubs were owned and beer (mainly bottled) sold to domestic customers which, it was claimed, numbered 8,000; following the death of Herbert King in 1916, the business was continued by his widow, Isabel, who was later assisted in the business by H.G. King (brewer) and Edwin Roy King; the name of the firm had been shortened to ‘King’s Brewery’ by 1924; in 1955 the business was sold and the premises were used for a time as a pig farm, before being demolished for housing.

Courtesy: Terry Critchley