WB/B7/2/2

Photocopied cutting from Evening Telegraph on history of Old Brewery, Luton, including:

25 Apr 1939

From: 1700 To: 1939

- large tenement on E side of Park Street, between Church Street and St.Anne's Lane (then called Sunnings Lane leading from Park Street to St.Mary's churchyard), owned in mid C18 by Thomas Cheney, whose family had held Bramingham Estate; - Cheney's property bought by Edmund Humphreys in 1767, who built a brewery on it, adjoining his house in Sunnings Lane; - Humphreys retired around 1776, moving to a large house in George Street, selling the Park Street house and brewery to Thomas Godfrey Burr, brewer; Burr bought many public houses in and around Luton, dying in 1798 and leaving the business to his widow and sons William and John; - by 1811 business was run by William Burr who died in 1830 leaving it to his wife, Elizabeth who, in turn left it to their sons Frederick and Charles, the former living in a house on the brewery site, the latter in a large house on the opposite side of the street; - Frederick and Charles Burr sold the business to Thomas Sworder in 1837, the adjoining house and garden not being sold with the brewery; - Thomas Sworder & Company sold to J.W.Green Limited in 1897

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Sworder, Thomas,
Burr, Frederick,
Burr, Elizabeth,
Burr, Charles,
Burr, William,
Burr, Thomas Godfrey,
Burr, John,
Cheney, Thomas,
T.Sworder & Company,
J.W.Green Limited

deaths, J.W.Green Limited, Thomas Sworder & Company, LUTON, Bramingham, Luton Park Street, Luton Church Street, Luton St.Anne's Lane, Luton Sunnings Lane