Savill Brothers Ltd
Savill Brothers Ltd, Maryland Road, Stratford, Newham, London E15
Founded in 1856. Registered in December 1893.
Acquired by Charrington & Co. Ltd. 1925 and was closed.
List of Savill Brothers Ltd pubs
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 first brewery built on a site close to Maryland Railway station of the Great Eastern Railway Company, was built in 1855 by the senior partner of the Savill brothers, Mr E.Savill. He was later joined by his brother Philip and in 1886/7 a new and larger brewery was built to the designs of Inskepp and Mackenzie, architects of London, on the same site.
The main brew house was three storeyed with two lucarnes, there were three tun rooms of 94' x 58' the mash tuns measuring 12' 4" diameter by 5' 9" deep, with cast iron bottom and sides with aluminium covers, and brass bound teak lagging. There were 16 fermenting rounds of English oak, with a capacity varying from 150 to 175 barrels. Two superheated Lancashire boilers of 80 P.S.I. had two feed pumps, there were also a 9" centrifugal pump, of 50 barrels per hour and a 40' head; a hydraulic pump with gummetal wheels, one set of three-throw 9" wort pumps of 6" diameter by 18" stroke with a capacity of moving 250 barrels per hour. There was a 6' x 4' x 3' slate tank and a mild steel plate hot liquor back measuring 7' x 6' x 3'. In the engine room there was a Langdale's beam engine of 40 H.P. with a 10' fly-wheel, the boiler house chimney stack was 150 feet high.
Large stables housed 78 Shire-bred horses, which had been partly replaced by motorised drays by the early 1920s. Numerous sheds around the one acre yard housed cask washing, stores, mess rooms, harness rooms etc; under the yard and offices were capacious cellars which could hold 12,000 barrels.
By the 1890s, the two sons of one of the partners, Percy and Herbert Savill, were also engaged in the business, Percy being responsible for the laboratory. He ensured that water from the two artesian wells of 400 ft depth maintained the quality of the company's renowned extra strong ale KKK, and the PA India Pale Ale. Adjacent to the brewery, bottling stores were erected in 1886 with Mr H. Matcham in charge, trading under the name of Taplow and Company.
In 1925, the Savill Brothers sold out to Charrington & Co. Ltd, Anchor Brewery, Mile End, E.1. At around this time there were some 160 employees. Brewing operations ceased and the site was up up for sale by auction on 16th February, 1926, with remaining brewery plant and machinery being sold on 23rd February, 1926.
Today only a reduced frontage to Maryland Road remains, the site being redeveloped in 1991.
The brewery features in The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland by Alfred Barnard published 1890.
An assortment of views of the brewery
Inside and outside the Dorset Arms. Courtesy Michael J Beswick.
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