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[[Image:Bridgewater Knight Northgate c1865.jpg|thumb|The brewery approach c.1865]]
[[Image:Bridgewater Knight Northgate c1865.jpg|thumb|The brewery approach c.1865]]
[[Image:Bridgewater Starkey Knight c1969.jpg|thumb|The brewery in 1969]]
[[Image:Bridgewater Starkey Knight c1969.jpg|thumb|The brewery in 1969]]
[[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]]
[[File:StarkeyKnightFordAd50.jpg|thumb|In the Merchants Inn, Rugby]]


<big>'''Starkey, Knight & Ford Ltd''', ''54 High Street, Bridgwater, Somerset and Fore Street, Tiverton, Devon.''</big>
<big>'''Starkey, Knight & Ford Ltd''', ''54 High Street, Bridgwater, Somerset and Fore Street, Tiverton, Devon.''</big>

Revision as of 13:00, 20 January 2020

The brewery approach c.1865
The brewery in 1969
In the Lethbridge Arms, Bishops Lydeard, 2009
In the Lethbridge Arms, Bishops Lydeard, 2009
In the Merchants Inn, Rugby

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

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 c.75 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.