Strong & Co Ltd: Takeover Trail

Strong & Co Ltd: Takeover Trail

Strongs were an acquisitive company. The following is a list of the breweries they took over.

• Hundred Brewery (Romsey) in 1886
• George Gibbons (Weyhill Brewery) in 1888 with 27 public houses; ceased brewing 1928
• John King, Christchurch Brewery in 1890 with 20 houses
• Panton & Co of Wareham in 1892 with 46 houses
• Ellen Curtis, Adelaide Brewery, Andover in about 1893
• A & H Scovell, College Street Brewery of Southampton in 1896
• Hine Brothers of Southampton in 1898
• Stephen Bennett (Wareham) in 1906 with 11 tied houses
• Ashby's Eling Brewery Co. Ltd of Southampton in 1920 with 20 public houses and the brewery was closed
• Johnson & Tozer of Bere Regis in 1921
• Carter & Co of Ringwood with c.19 houses in 1923 and was demolished to make way for a bus station
• Hilda Ogden, Bournemouth Brewery in 1925
• Marston's Dolphin Brewery Ltd of Poole in 1926 with 58 tied houses and used as a depot; demolished 1974
• Scrase Ltd of Southampton in 1927 with over 97 houses and brewing ceased 1947
• Lion Brewery (Winchester) Ltd with 52 houses and 2 off-licenses in 1931 and brewing ceased
• W & R Luker of Petersfield with 7 houses in 1934
• Strange & Sons Ltd of Aldermaston in 1945 and the pubs transferred to their subsidiary Wethered & Sons Ltd in 1949
• Wethered & Sons Ltd of Marlow in 1949 with 236 tied houses
• Mew, Langton & Co. Ltd of Newport IOW in 1965 with 144 houses and brewing ceased in 1969