Soames & Co. Ltd

An Ordnance Survey extract from 1903. "Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland" http://maps.nls.uk/index.html

An advert from 1890

1925

1949

Soames & Co. Ltd, 15 Cowbit Road, Spalding, Lincolnshire

Founded approx 1800.

Partnership between Henry Bugg and Thomas Brewerton of Market Deeping, brewers & liquor merchants, dissolved 16th April 1804. Henry Bugg bankrupt 1831 and partnership between William Henry Bugg and Henry Bugg jnr dissolved 1848. Bugg acquired John Richard Carter’s Albion Brewery, Westlode Street, which had been founded in 1824, in 1846. Henry Bugg jnr thereafter sole trader.

In 1861 employed 8 labourers. By 1861 Henry Bugg in partnership with his son John Henry Bugg. Joseph Henry Bugg sole proprietor by 1868, changing his name to Burg in 1876. Operated by him until 1889 when it was acquired by Soames & Co. Registered 1909.

Acquired by Steward & Patteson Ltd. in 1949 with 240 houses when brewing ceased but was operated as their subsidiary until 1957. Brewery now mostly demolished, but the brewery house Westbourne Lodge survives.

• See: "Soames of Spalding" by Adam Cartwright
• List of Soames & Co. Ltd Pubs

An assortment of images of the brewery

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  Brewery gates installed by Steward & Patteson

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  Courtesy Roy Denison