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<big>'''Trolley Thomas Houghton, ''' '' Fortescue Arms, High Street, Billingborough, Lincolnshire.''</big>
[[File:BillingboroughGreatNorthernBry_OS1887.jpg|thumb|Ordnance Survey extract from 1887. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)]]
 
<big>'''Trolley Thomas Houghton, Great Northern Brewery''', ''High Street, Billingborough, Lincolnshire''</big>
 
Shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887. Tony Pygott states: Houghton's brewery was across the road from Billingborough railway station and was named The Great Northern Brewery: the name coming from the railway (GNR built a lot of the early lines in Lincolnshire).
 
Part of the brewery site is still in evidence.
 
 
<gallery>
File:Great Northern Brewery from the Fortescue Arms.jpg
File:Great Northern Brewery front.jpg
File:BillingboroughGreatNorthern2_MBr_Oct2022.jpg|Mike Brown, 2022
</gallery>
 
 


Recorded in 1907.
[[Category:Lincolnshire]]
[[Category:Lincolnshire]]

Latest revision as of 13:09, 16 November 2022

Ordnance Survey extract from 1887. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)

Trolley Thomas Houghton, Great Northern Brewery, High Street, Billingborough, Lincolnshire

Shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1887. Tony Pygott states: Houghton's brewery was across the road from Billingborough railway station and was named The Great Northern Brewery: the name coming from the railway (GNR built a lot of the early lines in Lincolnshire).

Part of the brewery site is still in evidence.