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[[Image:Whitbread Flowers Cheltenham.jpg|thumb|Letterhead 1969]] | [[Image:Whitbread Flowers Cheltenham.jpg|thumb|Letterhead 1969]] | ||
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<big>'''West Country Breweries Ltd''', ''256 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.''</big> | <big>'''West Country Breweries Ltd''', ''256 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.''</big> | ||
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Closed 1998 and demolished in 2004. The site is now a modern shopping centre. | Closed 1998 and demolished in 2004. The site is now a modern shopping centre. | ||
* '''[[The Creation of the West Country Breweries Ltd]]''' | |||
'''[[The Creation of the West Country Breweries Ltd]]''' | * Article: '''[http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/168/4%20Agg.pdf "James Tynte Agg-Gardner, Esq, MP, | ||
of the Original Brewery, Cheltenham"]''' (Published 13 February 1875) | |||
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Cheltenham Original 1973 aa.jpg|1973 | Cheltenham Original 1973 aa.jpg|1973 | ||
Cheltenham Original 1973.jpg|1973 | Cheltenham Original 1973.jpg|1973 | ||
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''' | '''The Brewery in 1993 (Ian Peaty)''' | ||
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Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (1).jpg | Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (1).jpg | ||
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'''Labels, Artefacts, etc''' | |||
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File:West Country Ales Gloucester 14.2.1977.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Malmesbury 23 August 1987.JPG|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:Cheltenham Original RD zx (3).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:Cheltenham Original RD zx (2).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:Cheltenham Original RD zx (1).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (1).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (2).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (3).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (4).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (5).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (6).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:Cheltenham Original RD zc.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:WEST COUNTRY RD zx.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
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{{Trade Mark 2 |regno = 205,246|desc=Leckhampton Hill with the Devil's Chimney and pigeons picking up calcareous matter out of the original Cheltenham Spring|date=27/05/1897|seventy=NO | {{Trade Mark 2 |regno = 205,246|desc=Leckhampton Hill with the Devil's Chimney and pigeons picking up calcareous matter out of the original Cheltenham Spring|date=27/05/1897|seventy=NO | ||
|regno2 = 214,727|desc2=Tower with battlements|date2=07/06/1898|seventy2=NO}} | |regno2 = 214,727|desc2=Tower with battlements|date2=07/06/1898|seventy2=NO}} | ||
[[category:Gloucestershire]] | [[category:Gloucestershire]] |
Revision as of 13:12, 11 December 2020
West Country Breweries Ltd, 256 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Registered 15th April 1888 as the Cheltenham Original Brewery Co. Ltd to acquire the business of J.T.Agg-Gardner founded in 1760.
Name changed to Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries Ltd. 1945 when the Hereford & Tredegar Brewery Ltd. was acquired and was later renamed again to Cheltenham Brewery Holdings Ltd.
Merged with the Stroud Brewery Co. Ltd. 1958 to form West Country Breweries Ltd. with 1,275 tied houses.
Acquired by Whitbread & Co. Ltd. 1963 and was known as Whitbread Flowers Ltd.
Closed 1998 and demolished in 2004. The site is now a modern shopping centre.
- The Creation of the West Country Breweries Ltd
- Article: [http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/168/4%20Agg.pdf "James Tynte Agg-Gardner, Esq, MP,
of the Original Brewery, Cheltenham"] (Published 13 February 1875)
Various images of the Brewery
The Brewery in the 1990s
The Brewery in 1993 (Ian Peaty)
Labels, Artefacts, etc
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