Devenish & Co. Ltd

Extra Stout

K Bitter Ale

1948

1969

Coeur De Lion, Bath

Devenish & Co. Ltd, Hope Square, Weymouth, Dorset

Devenish & Co. Ltd, Chapel Street, Redruth, Cornwall

It is thought that brewing has taken place on this site since the 13th century. The current enterprise was founded in 1742 by the Fowler and Flew families, and acquired by William Devenish in 1824. Registered in 1889 as J A Devenish & Co Ltd and name was changed as above 1965.

• Mallett's Brewery of Truro was acquired in 1921.
• Carne's Falmouth Brewery was also acquired in 1921 and brewing ceased in 1926.
• Aylwin & Snowden of Exeter was acquired in 1925.
• In 1934, they acquired the Redruth Brewery Co. Ltd. For information on Redruth, see: Cornish Brewery Co. Ltd.
• They acquired the adjacent Groves & Sons Ltd, Hope Brewery, Weymouth in 1960 with 115 public houses.

330 tied houses. Brewing ceased at Weymouth in November 1985 and was concentrated at Redruth as the Redruth Brewery (1742) Ltd. The company closed the Redruth brewery (which became independent) in 1991, and became a retail pub company. The tied house estate was acquired by Greenall Whitley & Co. Ltd in 1993.

• List of Devenish & Co (Weymouth) pubs

• Groves & Devenish Redevelopment

Courtesy Paul Hathaway:

Weymouth Harbour, taken from a ship on the east side of the Harbour looking towards towards Hope Square and the Devenish and Groves Breweries. Hope Square is to the rear of the buildings in the dead centre of the picture. The white building on the right of the is the Old Rooms Inn, while the building with the two cream porticos is the Cove Inn, both now closed. The Old Rooms was one of the last pubs to be gas lit.

Various views of the Weymouth brewery

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  One of the sixty year old Lancashire boilers being scrapped. Manufactured by Galloways of Manchester. Courtesy Geoff Martin.
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  Delivery of a new package boiler. Parked in Hope Square waiting to be winched into position. The wall at the back of the photo, opposite the front of the brewery, was the coal bunker. Courtesy Geoff Martin.
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  Installation in 1963 of John Thompson Multipac boilers from Glasgow. The boiler room, clean and freshly painted, very different from the solid fuel grime. Courtesy Geoff Martin.
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The BHS explored the surviving buildings of the former Devenish and Groves breweries in October 2021

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  Groves 1904 Brewhouse
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  Rear of Groves
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  Devenish Coal & Hops Stores
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  Devenish stables
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  Devenish stables
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  Devenish stables
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  Groves Malthouse
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  Groves Malthouse
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  Groves Ale Store
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  Rear of Groves
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  Groves chimney
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  Malthouse No.2
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  Devenish chimney base
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The Redruth Brewery in 1977. Courtesy Roy Denison

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Labels, advertising, etc

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Ordnance Survey map extracts from 1863. "Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland" http://maps.nls.uk/index.html:

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