Plymouth Breweries Ltd

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The original share prospectus from 1889.
An advert from 1890.
The brewery in Stonehouse c.1950.

Plymouth Breweries Ltd, Regent Brewery, Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon.

Listed as Thomas Edwards in 1852 then Thomas Prynn in 1857.

Registered October 1889 to amalgamate: Samuel Vosper, Regent Brewery; Amanda Henrietta Butcher, Anchor Brewery, Chapel Street, Stonehouse; George Ryall, 41 Frankfurt Street Brewery; Hicks & Co, South Devon Brewery, 2 Willow Street, all in Plymouth and Frederick Richard Vaughan, Saltash Brewery.

Acquired by Courage & Co. Ltd. December 1970 for £6.5 million. Was known as 'Courage South West' for a while.

Brewing ceased in 1983.


Amanda Henrietta Butcher's, Anchor Brewery.


Regent Brewery in 1984.

Regent Brewery in 1990.

Some labels and ephemera.

Entry in the Trade Mark Registry

Registration No  : 27,942
Description  : A female figure, anchor, ships
Date of Application  : 21/3/1882
Used Prior to 1875?  : 8 years


Registration No  : 61,005
Description  : Arrow through circle with words "Butcher Stonehouse" TM for mineral waters
Date of Application  : 15/1/1887
Used Prior to 1875?  : NO