Soames & Co. Ltd Spalding
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Soames & Co. Ltd SpaldingEntry/Object ID
2025.1.337Description
Soames & Co Ltd Brewery Beer Barrel Brass CollarContext
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 survivesCategory
Breweries and Brewing