Alma Woods & Co (Wisbech)

The Elm Road Brewery. Ordnance Survey extract from 1900. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)

Alma Woods & Co, Standard Brewery, Upper Hill Street, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

Frederick Woods, Elm Road Brewery, Elm, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

The Woods family had previously brewed at Walpole Highway. See: Alma Woods, Walpole Brewery. Frederick converted a mill at Elm, south of Wisbech, into a brewery before 1900. From 1903, Herbert and Stephenson bought it from Frederick Woods and Henry T Herbert appears to have run the concern. By 1906 or 1908, Phillips & Company of the St Edmunds Brewery, Downham Market, were brewing at the premises and they stopped production at Downham. But in 1911, Elm Road Brewery buildings were seriously damaged by fire and brewing ceased, with production re-starting at St Edmunds Brewery.

Boutell & Simmons were listed at the Standard Brewery in 1855. Then John James Blackburn in 1869 and Charles Exley & Son listed 1900. Exley was a wine and spirit merchant, trading from 4 Bridge Street in 1883. Charles Exley & Son still listed 1904. Alma Woods listed 1917 to ca.1923. On 6th November 1925, Mr Alma Woods had sold the brewery and disposed of the vehicles etc. The inn at Hill Street to let 1936 by Soames of Spalding.

Images courtesy of Keith Osborne

File:WisbechElmRoadBry1.jpg File:WisbechElmRoadBry_1911.jpg|Destroyed by fire, 1911