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[[Image:Tiverton 02.jpg|thumb|An advert from 1900]]
[[Image:Tiverton 02.jpg|thumb|An advert from 1900]]
[[Image:Tiverton 03.jpg|thumb|Letterhead 1951]]
[[Image:Tiverton 03.jpg|thumb|Letterhead 1951]]
[[File:s-l225 (7).jpg|thumb|Tivvy Ales]]
[[File:StarkeyKF_Sign_RayFarleigh.jpg|thumb|In the Lethbridge Arms, Bishops Lydeard, 2009]]
[[File:StarkeyKF_Sign_RayFarleigh.jpg|thumb|In the Lethbridge Arms, Bishops Lydeard, 2009]]
[[File:StarkeyKF_Sign1_RayFarleigh.jpg|thumb|In the Lethbridge Arms, Bishops Lydeard, 2009]]
[[File:StarkeyKF_Sign1_RayFarleigh.jpg|thumb|In the Lethbridge Arms, Bishops Lydeard, 2009]]
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'''An assortment of views of the brewery.'''
'''An assortment of views of the brewery'''


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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 01.jpg|The Whitbread Bottling Hall.
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File:s-l225 (7).jpg|Tivvy Ales
File:Starkey Knight & Ford Tiverton Ale.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison
File:Starkey Knight & Ford Tiverton Ale.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison
File:Starkey Knight & Ford.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison
File:Starkey Knight & Ford.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison

Revision as of 10:45, 31 May 2020

An advert from 1900
Letterhead 1951
In the Lethbridge Arms, Bishops Lydeard, 2009
In the Lethbridge Arms, Bishops Lydeard, 2009
In the Merchants Inn, Rugby

Starkey, Knight & Ford Ltd, Northgate Brewery, Bridgwater, Somerset.

Founded 1842 by George Knight. Registered November 1887 as Starkey, Knight & Co., having merged with Thomas Starkey, of North Petherton and Taunton.

In 1889 a new tower brewery was constructed, their offices being at what had been the Heal & Cook site 54 High Street. In 1895 changed to Starkey, Knight & Ford Ltd in 1895 when Thomas Ford & Son of Tiverton was acquired with 40 tied houses.

North Petherton and Taunton closed 1906.

Acquired by Whitbread & Co. Ltd. in 1962 with 400 tied houses. The Bridgwater brewery was closed in the same year, and demolished 1967.



An assortment of views of the brewery


Labels