Parker's Burslem Brewery Co. Ltd

Ordnance Survey extract from 1937. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)

Letterhead 1946

From John Plant. Parker's Ales at the Duncombe Arms, Ellastone

Parker's Burslem Brewery Co. Ltd, Pitt Street East, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.

Founded 1860. Registered as above in 1889.

Acquisitions:

• Frederick Job Ridgway & Sons, Newcastle-under-Lyme. Acquired from the Burton Brewery Co. Ltd with 23 houses in 1915.
• Dix & Co. Ltd. Shelton Brewery, Stoke-on-Trent. Acquired in 1921 with 31 public houses. Closed 1933.
• Charles Bunting Ltd, Uttoxeter and Dove Valley Breweries. Acquired in 1929 and brewing ceased.

Parker's Brewery was acquired by Ind Coope Ltd in 1949 with 468 tied houses. In its later years it was badged as 'Ansell's Burslem Brewery'.

In July 1956 there was a report of a fire in a disused five-storey brewery building, where workmen had been dismantling equipment. Brewing ceased in 1963. Some of the buildings were demolished in the 1990s.

An assortment of images of the brewery

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  The brewery in 1986
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  The brewery in 1986
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  Courtesy Roy Denison

The brewery in 2018

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Some Parker's pubs

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  Former Botteslow Arms, 2006. This window now gone.
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  George & Dragon, Hanley, 2007
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  George & Dragon, Hanley, 2007
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  George & Dragon, Hanley, 2009
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  George & Dragon, Hanley, 2009
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  George & Dragon, Hanley, 2009
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  George & Dragon, Hanley, 2009
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  Highland Laddie, Hanley, 2006
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  Talbot Hotel, Market Drayton, 2006. This window now gone.
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  38 Mill Street, Stafford, 2007
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  38 Mill Street, Stafford, 2007
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  Rifleman (formerly Rifle Volunteer Arms), Stafford, 2007
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  Rifleman (formerly Rifle Volunteer Arms), Stafford, 2007
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  Rifleman (formerly Rifle Volunteer Arms), Stafford, 2007