Name/Title
The Plymouth Breweries brass collarEntry/Object ID
2025.1.473Description
The Plymouth Breweries Beer barrel brass collarContext
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.comAcquisition
Accession
2025.1Source or Donor
Gordon DempsterAcquisition Method
Transfer