Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd

An advert from 1865

A share certificate

Letterhead 1986

Sign at New Market Street, Leeds, 2024

Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd, 21 Hunslet Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire

Founded before October 1822 when Joshua Tetley acquired William Sykes' brewery. Registered July 1897.

As Joshua Tetley, they acquired the following breweries:

• T. & W. R. Dickinson (Formby). Acquired 1949 with 3 pubs.
• Duncan Gilmour & Co. Ltd (Sheffield). Acquired with 342 houses in 1954 and ceased brewing 1959.
• Whitaker & Co. Ltd (Bradford). Acquired in 1959 with 119 houses.
• Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd. Acquired in 1960 and brewing ceased one year later. Owned 245 public houses.

Merged with Walker Cain Ltd. with 2,771 houses 1960 to form Tetley Walker Ltd. In 1961, it became part of Allied Breweries but in January 1993 was renamed Carlsberg-Tetley as a result of an amalgamation with the Carlsberg Brewery.

Brewing ceased at Leeds in June 2011 and most of site has since been cleared. Tetley ales continue to be brewed elsewhere, under licence from Carlsberg-Tetley.

• List of Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd. pubs (in approximate order of date of acquistion)
• Joshua Tetley: Pubs transferred from Ind Coope in 1964
• Joshua Tetley: List of Pubs in Leeds
• Joshua Tetley: List of Pubs in Bradford and Wakefield
• Joshua Tetley: List of Pubs in West Yorkshire
• Joshua Tetley: List of Pubs in South Yorkshire
• Joshua Tetley: List of Pubs in North and East Yorkshire
• Joshua Tetley: List of Pubs in Lancashire
• Joshua Tetley: List of Pubs in Greater Manchester
• Joshua Tetley: List of Pubs Elsewhere in England

The brewery features in The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland by Alfred Barnard published 1890.

• Read: "Joshua Tetley & Son, Leeds: Extracted from the Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland" by Alfred Bernard

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  The brewery in 1988. Courtesy Walter Dunlop
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  The brewery in 1988. Courtesy Walter Dunlop
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  The brewery in 1988. Courtesy Walter Dunlop
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  The brewery in 1988. Courtesy Walter Dunlop
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  The brewery in 1988. Courtesy Walter Dunlop
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008: In the Adelphi beforehand
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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  BHS visit to Tetley's Brewery, September 2008
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At one point both Tetley and Eldridge, Pope & Co. Ltd "shared" a common Trade Mark

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Entry in the Trade Mark Registry Registration No  : 1,124 Description  : Heraldic Shield with 5 pointed star Date of Application  : 20/01/1876 Used Prior to 1875?  : Since 1866