William Day & Co

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William H Day & Co, Castle Brewery, 17 Gold Street, Saffron Walden, Essex.

Acquired by Watney, Combe, Reid & Co. Ltd. 1895 after Day committed suicide in vat.

Offered for sale with brewery licence 1903.


From ESSEX BREWERS - The Malting and Hop Industries of the County by Ian P Peaty 1992 now out of print ISBN 978 1 873966 02 4

Charles Porter is first listed as a maltster in Gold Street in 1839, but was brewing by 1884 when he sold the business to Sykes and Company who ran it for only three years, selling it c.1890s to W.H. Day and Company.

Another sale took place and Mr Joshua Clarke purchased the concern, but on his death in the early part of 1892, the brewery was once again on the market. An auction took place at the Rose and Crown hotel (note Charles George Payne's Brewery) on 21st June, 1892, which included in addition to the Castle Brewery, 90 cottages, 5 houses and shops, and 5 maltings.

The brewery was purchased by the London brewers Watney, Combe, Reid & Co. Ltd. who closed the brewery down in 1903.

Later a laundry occupied the site.

From ESSEX BREWERS - The Malting and Hop Industries of the County by Ian P Peaty 1992 now out of print ISBN 978 1 873966 02 4