Salt & Co. Ltd

Thomas Salt & Co. Ltd, 119 High Street, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Founded as maltsters 1774. Registered November 1893.

Acquired by Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd. 1927 and brewing ceased. Site cleared to build shopping precinct c.1965.

Malting continued at the firm's Walsitch Maltings under Bass until the 1960s, now mostly converted into industrial units.

These two images show Salt's London depot at St Pancras Station. There is over 120 years between the two pictures but interestingly there is little visual difference

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  From Barnards book on British Breweries

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  Thanks to the eagle eyes of Martyn Cornell

Entry in the Trade Mark Registry Registration No  : 13,888 Description  : Maltese Cross and S Date of Application  : 12/12/1877 Used Prior to 1875?  : Since March 1875