Type | Private |
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Industry | Brewing |
Founded | Bristol, UK (1865 ) |
Founder | Thomas Baynton |
Defunct | 1931 | /1932
Fate | Acquired by Bristol Brewery Georges & Co |
Headquarters | , UK |
Products | Beer |
Ashton Gate Brewery Co Ltd (also known for a time as Hardwick and Co Ltd) was a brewing company based in Bristol, UK. It was one of the first 1000 companies registered in England and Wales.
Thomas Baynton had operated a business on North Street [1] in Ashton Gate under the name Ashton Gate Brewery. [2] The company was established in 1865 in order to acquire the business after Baynton's death. [3] It was one of the first 1000 companies registered with Companies House. [4]
The company changed its name to Hardwick and Co in 1868, reverting to Ashton Gate Brewery Co in 1883, [3] and was listed in Kelly's Directory. [1] [5] In its last year of independent operation (to 1931), an ordinary dividend of 13 per cent was paid. [6]
The company was acquired by Bristol Brewery Georges & Co in either 1931 [3] or 1932. [7]
One former managing director was H. R. Harvey, whose son William Rhys Harvey became a director of Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. [8]
The brewery operated at Ashton Gate in Bristol. [3] Additions to the brewery were made in 1905 by brewers' engineers George Adlam, [9] being described architecturally by Foyle in his book Bristol (2004) as "brick and Ham stone with blind lunettes beneath shaped gables." [10] The brewery produced porter and strong beer. [2]
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