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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)]]


Recorded in 1907.
<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).


'''Tony Pygott states:- '''
Part of the brewery site is still in evidence.


Houghton the brewery which was across the road and was named The Great Northern Brewery. The name coming from it's location next to Billingborough railway station (GNR built a lot of the early lines in Lincolnshire).
Part of the brewery site is still in evidence.


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File:Great Northern Brewery from the Fortescue Arms.jpg
File:Great Northern Brewery from the Fortescue Arms.jpg
File:Great Northern Brewery front.jpg
File:Great Northern Brewery front.jpg
File:BillingboroughGreatNorthern2_MBr_Oct2022.jpg|Mike Brown, 2022
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[[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.