Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd

The former Crown pub

William Butler was born in Hinckley, Leicestershire in 1843. This blue plaque is displayed on the Greyhound Inn, New Buildings, Hinckley.

Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd, Crown Brewery, 36/37 Broad Street, Birmingham, West Midlands

Built 1880s by William Butler at rear of pub.

Registered January 1895.

Merged with Henry Mitchell & Co. Ltd. with 130 houses in 1898 to form Mitchells & Butlers Ltd.

Oddly, Whitbread & Co. Ltd listed here 1921.

The building survived almost into the C21 before falling to the city centre redevelopment.

• List of Butler's Crown Brewery Ltd pubs

• William Waters Butler

Views of the brewery

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  The former Crown pub
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  The former Crown pub
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  The former Crown pub

Windows

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  Butler's window at the Royal Oak, Erdington
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  Butler's window at the Bass Museum, Burton on Trent