North Eastern Breweries Ltd
North Eastern Breweries Ltd, Wear Brewery, Westbourne Road, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear.
Registered December 1896 with over 180 houses to acquire: Bramwell & Co, Wear Brewery; William Story & Co, Moor Street Brewery, Sunderland; Richard Murray, wine, spirit and ale merchants and aerated water manufacturer, Consett; J.H.Graham, Middlesborough, wine and spirit merchant; Patrick Bruce Junor, Tower Brewery, Tudhoe Grange, Spennymoor and Thomas Elwen, Frederick Street, Sunderland, ale and porter merchants.
Merged with Vaux Breweries Ltd. 1927 to form Associated Breweries Ltd.
Ceased brewing on site in 1936 but continued to malt. The Wear Brewery was closed in 1942.
North Eastern Breweries Ltd, Broadway Brewery, Broadway Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Acquired by NEB of Sunderland 1899 after being closed for some years. Probably ceased 1912.