Richard Reeve

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Reeve West Ham 1994.jpg
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Richard William Reeve, West Ham Brewery, 242 Romford Road, Forest Gate London E7.

Built brewery in 1897 but plant for sale 9th April 1900. Used as a piano factory until c.1929.


From ESSEX BREWERS - The Malting and Hop Industries of the County by Ian P Peaty 1992 now out of print ISBN 978 1 873966 02 4

The brewery was situated at the right hand end of a terrace of houses, with the offices at the front and the brew house and ancillary buildings to the rear, access being via a covered archway. Across the entire front garden there was a sign, some 35 feet in length, which proclaimed that the trade was expressly for "Private Families".

The products were Nursing Stout and Pale Dinner Ale.

Brewing was taking place prior to 1900, at which time the said sign also proclaimed that "a new artesian well 250 feet deep has recently been sunk, yielding an inexhaustible supply of water which is pumped direct from the chalk strata and posses valuable properties for brewing".

By 1929 the brewery had closed and the premises sold, used by Gilberts Pianoforte as a factory.