The Plymouth Breweries brass collar

Object/Artifact

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Waterperry Museum

Name/Title

The Plymouth Breweries brass collar

Entry/Object ID

2025.1.473

Description

The Plymouth Breweries Beer barrel brass collar

Context

Plymouth Breweries Ltd, Regent Brewery, Stonehouse, Plymouth, Devon. Listed as Thomas Edwards in 1852 then Thomas Prynn in 1857. Registered October 1889 to amalgamate: Samuel Vosper, Regent Brewery; Amanda Henrietta Butcher, Anchor Brewery, Chapel Street, Stonehouse; George Ryall, 41 Frankfort Street Brewery; Hicks & Co, South Devon Brewery, 2 Willow Street, all in Plymouth and Frederick Richard Vaughan, Saltash Brewery. Acquired by Courage & Co. Ltd. December 1970 for £6.5 million. Was known as 'Courage South West' for a while. Brewery closed in March 1984. Source Breweryhistory.com

Category

Breweries and Brewing

Acquisition

Accession

2025.1

Source or Donor

Gordon Dempster

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Location

* Untyped Location

C11S2