Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd

Ordnance Survey extract from 1915-1919. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)

Courtesy Malcolm Toft

Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd, Melbourne Brewery, Regent Street / Plum Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Registered in December 1889 as the Leeds & Wakefield Breweries Ltd to amalgamate:

• Kirk, Matthews, Melbourne Brewery and
• Carter & Sons, Victoria Brewery, Wakefield.

Name changed to Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd in December 1957. Acquired by Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd in 1960 and brewing ceased one year later. Owned 245 public houses.

• List of Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd. pubs
• View a film: "Whats Brewing": a delightful short film by the Leeds Camera Club, showing Melbourne's Brewery in about 1959: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-whats-brewing-1959-online

Various images:

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  The brewery in 1963

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  An advert from 1923

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  An advert from 1937

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  A letter head from 1943

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  A Leeds tram at Crich

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  Courtesy Roy Denison

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  Courtesy Roy Denison

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