Salt & Co. Ltd

Thomas Salt & Co. Ltd, 119 High Street, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire

Founded as maltsters 1774. Thomas Salt had been employed by Joseph Clay & Son as a maltster and as manager of their breweries. Salt established his own brewery in High Street around 1800. Registered November 1893.

They acquired:

• Thomas William Thompson & Co, Wooden Box Brewery, Woodville, in 1909
• Brunt, Bucknall & Co, Hartshorne Brewery, High Street, Woodville, in 1919, with over 100 pubs
• Crescent Brewery, Burton-upon-Trent in 1919

Acquired by Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd in 1927 and brewing ceased. Site cleared to build shopping precinct c.1965.

Malting continued at the firm's Walsitch Maltings under Bass until the 1960s, now mostly converted into industrial units. A microbrewery has been established here: see Tower Brewery (Burton).

• List of Thomas Salt & Co Ltd pubs

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

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Courtesy Cyril Pagniez

The Salt family memorial in St Modwen's churchyard, Burton

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These two images show Salt's London depot at St Pancras Station. There is over 120 years between the two pictures but interestingly there is little visual difference

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  From Barnards book on British Breweries
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  Thanks to the eagle eyes of Martyn Cornell

Entry in the Trade Mark Registry Registration No  : 3,988 Description  : Maltese Cross Date of Application  : 17/03/1876 Used Prior to 1875?  : Since 1856 Registration No  : 13,888 Description  : Maltese Cross and S Date of Application  : 12/12/1877 Used Prior to 1875?  : Since March 1875