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The company was founded in 1842 by Henry and Thomas Wilders, who came from a family of tanners. They built their brewery on their leather-working premises in Burton High Street. It grew remarkably quickly and was the third largest brewery in 1861 with 297 employees. The company also had maltings in Ashby-de-la-Zouch. [1]
Trent Brewery, the former Everards Brewery in Anglesey Road, Burton. Burton upon Trent has a long history of brewing, at one time exporting beer throughout the world and accounting for a quarter of UK beer production; emulation of Burton water in brewing is called Burtonisation. Much of the town was given over to the industry throughout the ...
The brewery was founded in 1751 as Clay's Brewery by Joseph Clay I (1726-1800), [1] who came originally from Merrybower, near Derby. Some time before Joseph Clay I died in 1800, his son Joseph II (1756-1824) took over the business, and was described in The "British Directory" of 1791 as one of the famous "nine common brewers of Burton-on-Trent."
After Samuel's death in 1838, his sons Charles and Henry continued the brewery as Allsopp & Sons. In 1859, they built a new brewery near the railway station, and added a prestigious office block in 1864. By 1861, Allsopp's was the second-largest brewery after Bass. Henry Allsopp retired in 1882 and his son Samuel Charles Allsopp took over.
[4] [5] The museum reopened as the National Brewery Centre on 1 May 2010 and was officially reopened by The Princess Royal on 21 September 2010. [6] The National Brewery Centre. The Centre finally closed on 31 October 2022 after Coors decided to move its UK headquarters to the site.
The company took over Lewis Meakin's Abbey Brewery in Burton upon Trent in 1872 to become one of the breweries in Burton. [5] Nicholas's two sons, Edward and Spencer, succeeded their father in 1859, and following the death of Head in 1880, the firm was known as Charrington & Co.
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Production of ale had grown to 340,000 barrels in 1860 and to almost a million barrels in the late 1870s. By 1881, the company had three breweries and 26 malthouses covering 145 acres (0.59 km 2) in Burton upon Trent. The company was Britain's biggest brewery and was one of its best known companies.