Sutton & Bean Ltd

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1892

Sutton, Bean & Co, Wrawby/Queen Street, Brigg, Lincolnshire.

Acquired by the Hull Brewery Co. Ltd. 1925 with 17 public houses.

Rear of the Britannia public house. Some buildings survive.

Pat Aldabella and Robert Barnard write:-

Sutton and Holmes had taken over by 1889 from the Britannia Brewery, Wrawby St./Queen St. The partnership did not last long and by 1893 Francis Richard Sutton had also taken over Wood's brewery at 24 Market Place. Sutton seems to have moved from Scawby and started brewing c.1876. He had formed a partnership with William Ashby Bean, a Hull accountant, by 1900, when they took over Brunt & Co. of Scunthorpe. Surprisingly, as late as 1904 William Ashby Bean was made freeman by patrimony from J. S. Bean & Co. J. S. Bean & Co. had been brewers in Queen St., Hull but do not seem to have traded after c.1885. In 1914 William Stuart Bean was made freeman by patrimony from William Ashby Bean, brewer, Brigg. F. R. Sutton also had a wine and spirits merchant's business next to the Tally Ho pub in Bond St., Hull before 1900.

F. R. Sutton advertised the following range of beers, priced per gallon, during the 1890s.

A Bean lost two sons during April 1918 and in the November he also lost his wife. Five years later the firm suffered a crisis when Sutton removed his capital. Bean, at the age of 60, decided to sell the assets and offered the pubs to the tenants at reasonable prices. The only Brigg licensee to take up the offer was Billy Bell at the Nelthorpe Arms. The brewery's last brew was on December 31 1924.

Hewitt Bros. bought the Cross Keys, Gainsborough; Neptune Inn, Gainsborough and the Station Hotel, Barnetby from Sutton, Bean & Co. in 1924. Sutton & Bean also owned the Lord Nelson, Bigby St., Brigg. The Hull Brewery Co. Ltd. bought the bulk of the licensed houses and the brewery. In the early 1930s Hull Brewery owned the Royal Vaults, Volunteer Arms, Waterside Inn, White Swan in Barton; Brocklesby Ox, Britannia inn, Brigg Shop & Stores (Queen St. off-licence) in Brigg; Red Lion, Broughton; Hope & Anchor, Ferriby Sluice; Pelham Inn, New Holland; Butchers Arms, North Kelsey; Thornton Hunt Inn, Thornton Curtis and the Fox Inn, Ulceby, presumably ex-Sutton pubs. Wards of Sheffield also acquired some Sutton's pubs. Sutton & Bean's estate extended as far as Lincoln, possibly the Druids Arms. In 1934 the Territorials used the old brewery as a drill hall.


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Ordnance Survey extract from 1905. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)



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Entry in the Trade Mark Registry

Registration No  : 192,801
Description  : Cosinooke (word) and signature TM for whisky
Date of Application  : 31/01/1896
Used Prior to 1875?  : NO