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Image:Starkey 01.jpg|One of their early powered drays.
Image:Starkey 01.jpg|One of their early powered drays.
Image:Starkey 02.jpg|A charabanc outing for the brewery staff.  
Image:Starkey 02.jpg|A charabanc outing for the brewery staff.  
Image:Tiverton 01.jpg|The Whitbread Bottling Hall.
Image:Tiverton 02.jpg|An advert from 1900.
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Revision as of 20:06, 14 July 2014

Starkey, Knight & Ford Ltd, 54 High Street and Fore Street, Tiverton, Devon, Bridgwater, Somerset.

Founded by George Knight 1840. Registered November 1887 as Starkey, Knight & Co. Ltd. to acquire the businesses of Henry and George Knight, Northgate Brewery and Thomas Starkey, North Petherton and Taunton breweries with a total of 30 public houses.

Name changed as above 1895 when Thomas Ford & Son of Tiverton was acquired with 40 tied houses.

North Petherton and Taunton breweries closed 1906.

Acquired by Whitbread & Co. Ltd. 1962 with 400 tied houses.

The Bridgwater brewery was closed in the same year.


An assortment of views of the brewery.