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<big>'''West Country Breweries Ltd | [[Image:CHELTENHAM.JPG|thumb|Cheltenham Original Brewery Co., New Brewery, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Brewers’ Journal 15th November 1898]] | ||
''256 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire''</big> | [[Image:Original 51.jpg|thumb|Letterhead 1945]] | ||
[[Image:Cheltenham & Hereford 1945.jpg|thumb|Letters 1945 and 1958]] | |||
[[Image:West Country Cheltenham.jpg|thumb|Letterhead 1966]] | |||
[[Image:Whitbread Flowers Cheltenham.jpg|thumb|Letterhead 1969]] | |||
[[Image:West Country Brewery plaque.jpg|thumb]] | |||
[[File:PeopletonCrown2006aa_BHK_Mar2006.jpg|thumb|The Crown, Peopleton (photo BHK 2006)]] | |||
<big>'''West Country Breweries Ltd''', ''256 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.''</big> | |||
Registered 15th April 1888 as the Cheltenham Original Brewery Co. Ltd to acquire the business of J.T.Agg-Gardner founded in 1760. | Registered 15th April 1888 as the Cheltenham Original Brewery Co. Ltd to acquire the business of J.T.Agg-Gardner founded in 1760. | ||
Name changed to Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries Ltd. 1945 when the Hereford & Tredegar Brewery Ltd | Name changed to Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries Ltd. 1945 when the [[Hereford & Tredegar Brewery Ltd]] was acquired and was later renamed again to Cheltenham Brewery Holdings Ltd. Merged with the [[Stroud Brewery Co. Ltd]] in 1958 to form West Country Breweries Ltd. with 1,275 tied houses. Acquired by [[Whitbread & Co. Ltd]] in 1963 and it became known as Whitbread Flowers Ltd. | ||
Brewery closed 1998 and much of it demolished in 2004. The site is now a modern shopping centre surrounding the former brewhouse. | |||
* '''[[The Creation of the West Country Breweries Ltd]]''' | |||
* Article: '''[http://www.breweryhistory.com/journal/archive/168/4%20Agg.pdf "James Tynte Agg-Gardner, Esq, MP, of the Original Brewery, Cheltenham"]''' (Published 13 February 1875) | |||
* '''[[West Country Breweries 'Castle' Plaques]]''' | |||
'''Various images of the Brewery''' | |||
<gallery> | |||
Whitbread Cheltenham.jpg | |||
Cheltenham Flowers roof lines.jpg | |||
Cheltenham Original 1970 -8.jpg|1970 | |||
Cheltenham Original 1970 -4.jpg|1970 | |||
Cheltenham Original 1970 -2.jpg|1970 | |||
Cheltenham 1973 aa.jpg|1973 | |||
Cheltenham 1973.jpg|1973 | |||
Cheltenham Original 1973 aa.jpg|1973 | |||
Cheltenham Original 1973.jpg|1973 | |||
</gallery> | |||
'''The Brewery in the 1990s''' | |||
<gallery> | |||
Cheltenham Whitbread 1990 (4).jpg|1990 | |||
Cheltenham Whitbread 1990 (3).jpg|1990 | |||
Cheltenham Whitbread 1990 (2).jpg|1990 | |||
Cheltenham Whitbread 1990 (1).jpg|1990 | |||
Cheltenham Flowers 1998 1.jpg|1998 | |||
</gallery> | |||
'''The Brewery in 1993 (Ian Peaty)''' | |||
<gallery> | |||
Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (7).jpg | |||
Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (6).jpg | |||
Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (5).jpg | |||
Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (4).jpg | |||
Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (3).jpg | |||
Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (2).jpg | |||
Whitbread Cheltenham 1993 Peaty (1).jpg | |||
</gallery> | |||
'''The shopping centre on the brewery site''' | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Cheltenham Brewhouse 2017.jpg | |||
File:Cheltenham Brewhouse.jpg | |||
File:Cheltenham Brewery Quarter 2017.jpg | |||
File:CheltenhamWestCountry2023aa_SP_Feb2023.jpg|2023: The brewhouse survives surrounded by fast-food restaurants | |||
File:CheltenhamWestCountry2023bb_SP_Feb2023.jpg|2023 | |||
</gallery> | |||
'''Labels, Artefacts, etc''' | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:West Country Ales Gloucester 14.2.1977.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Malmesbury 23 August 1987.JPG|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:Cheltenham Original RD zx (3).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:Cheltenham Original RD zx (2).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:Cheltenham Original RD zx (1).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (1).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (2).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (3).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (4).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (5).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:West Country Cheltenahn RD zx (6).jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:Cheltenham Original RD zc.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
File:WEST COUNTRY RD zx.jpg|Courtesy Roy Denison | |||
</gallery> | |||
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|regno2 = 214,727|desc2=Tower with battlements|date2=07/06/1898|seventy2=NO}} | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:28, 9 November 2023
West Country Breweries Ltd, 256 High Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Registered 15th April 1888 as the Cheltenham Original Brewery Co. Ltd to acquire the business of J.T.Agg-Gardner founded in 1760.
Name changed to Cheltenham & Hereford Breweries Ltd. 1945 when the Hereford & Tredegar Brewery Ltd was acquired and was later renamed again to Cheltenham Brewery Holdings Ltd. Merged with the Stroud Brewery Co. Ltd in 1958 to form West Country Breweries Ltd. with 1,275 tied houses. Acquired by Whitbread & Co. Ltd in 1963 and it became known as Whitbread Flowers Ltd.
Brewery closed 1998 and much of it demolished in 2004. The site is now a modern shopping centre surrounding the former brewhouse.
- The Creation of the West Country Breweries Ltd
- Article: "James Tynte Agg-Gardner, Esq, MP, of the Original Brewery, Cheltenham" (Published 13 February 1875)
- West Country Breweries 'Castle' Plaques
Various images of the Brewery
The Brewery in the 1990s
The Brewery in 1993 (Ian Peaty)
The shopping centre on the brewery site
Labels, Artefacts, etc
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