Showell's Brewery Co. Ltd
Showell's Brewery Co. Ltd, Crosswells Brewery, Oldbury, West Midlands.
Brewers’ Guardian 1874 recorded that a new brewery was being erected on the Langley Springs for Mr Walter Showell of the Victoria Brewery, Oldbury.
Registered March 1887 as Walter Showell & Sons Ltd. to acquire the Victoria Brewery and possibly to finance an additional brewery.
Also at Showell's Stockport Brewery Ltd which was formed into a separate company in 1896. The London public houses were sold to Reffell's Brewery Ltd. 1898.
Acquired by Allsopp & Sons Ltd. 1914 with 194 tied houses.
The Red Lion, Crich Tramway Museum, was originally located at 14 Church Street, Stoke-on-Trent, at the south-eastern corner of St Peter’s churchyard. The pub was reconstructed at Crich and reopened in 2002:
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