The Brewery History Society: Breweries
Dorset - Dorchester, Weymouth Avenue: Eldridge Pope & Co Ltd, Dorchester Brewery
Eldridge, Pope & Co Ltd, Dorchester Brewery, Weymouth Avenue. Founded in 1837 when Charles Eldridge leased the Dragon Brewery, Ackland Road/Durngate Street (closed 1883). The Dorchester Brewery opened in 1880. Registered in May 1897 with 74 public houses. The pub estate was sold in 1997 and a management buy-out was followed by a merger in 1998 with Burtonwood. Trading as Thomas Hardy Brewery, the brewery closed in 2003.
Reference:
A Century of British Brewers Plus - 1890 to 2004. Brewery History Society, 2005.
These images from 'WRB', January 2007:
