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WB/Pearman7/2/3
Title
Cutting regarding takeover of J.& J.E.Phillips Limited of The Brewery, Royston [Hertfordshire] by J.W.Green Limited including following: - directors E.C.M.Phillips and H.P.J.Phillips to join board of J.W.Green; - eventual closure of Royston Brewery; - Royston brewery acquired by Robert Phillips, son of William, of Radwell [Hertfordshire] in 1725; - Phillips became limited company in 1897 and acquired P.& A.Meyer of Orwell [Cambridgeshire] in that year; - Phillips owned, in 1949, 149 licensed houses in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire; - J.W.Green, in 1949, owned 400 houses in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Kent and Sussex, operating a second brewery at Tunbridge Wells [Kent]; - chairman of J.W.Green in 1949 was Bernard Dixon, also director of Westoe Breweries Limited of South Shields [Northumberland] and Rhodesian Breweries Limited; - J.W.Green began in 1767 as E.Humphreys, later sold to Burrs Brewery, which was acquired by Thomas Sworder & Company in 1857, J.W.Green himself acquiring Pearmans in 1869, and Sworders in 1897 with Glover & Sons and Pryor Reid & Company of Hatfield [Hertfordshire] in 1919, W.& S.Lucas in 1923 and Morris & Company (Ampthill) in 1926; - J.W.Green acquired Adey & White Limited of St.Albans [Hertfordshire] in 1936 and E.& H.Kelsey Limited of Tunbridge Wells in 1948
Date free text
Dec 1949
Production date
From: 1725 To: 1949
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