3498 x 4735 px | 29,6 x 40,1 cm | 11,7 x 15,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
18 ottobre 2022
Ubicazione:
Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Altre informazioni:
Samuel Allsopp & Sons Ltd, High Street, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. Founded by Benjamin Wilson senior in the 1740s and was acquired from his son Benjamin junior by the latter's nephew Samuel Allsopp 1807. Second brewery in Station Street added 1859-60. Registered February 1887. In financial difficulties and went into receivership July 1911. New board appointed 1913 and recovered thereafter. In 1930, they acquired Archibald Arrol & Sons Ltd of Alloa, a brewery which continued to trade until 1998. Merged with Ind Coope Ltd in June 1934 to form Ind Coope & Allsopp Ltd. with 1, 800 houses. High Street brewery converted to lager production 1899 and mostly demolished 1938, the remaining building was used as a shoe factory then demolished in 1979 after the site was bought by Bass who built offices thereon. Station Street brewery still standing, part used as offices and for residential, the rest incorporated into Molson-Coors complex. The brewery's famous pale ale was Double Diamond The brewery features in The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland by Alfred Barnard published 1890.
