The Cannon Brewery brass collar

Object/Artifact

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Waterperry Museum

Name/Title

The Cannon Brewery brass collar

Entry/Object ID

2025.1.472

Description

The Cannon Brewery C Ltd Beer barrel brass collar

Context

Cannon Brewery Co. Ltd, 160 St John Street, Clerkenwell, London EC1. Founded about 1720 by Rivers Dickinson. Registered January 1895 with 110 public houses. They acquired the following breweries before being taken over themselves: Holt & Co (East Ham). Acquired in October 1912 with 27 public houses. Clutterbuck & Co of Harrow. Acquired in 1923 with 84 tied houses. Salter & Co. Ltd of Rickmansworth. ‎ Acquired in 1924 with 76 tied houses and was closed. Christie & Co. Ltd of Hoddesdon. Acquired in 1927 with 159 tied houses. Acquired by Taylor, Walker & Co. Ltd in 1930 but brewing continued until 1955 and was converted into a distillery and bonded warehouse in 1959 partly used by Allied Breweries. Carlsberg-Tetley headquarters were located here but now residential. Source Breweryhistory.com

Category

Breweries and Brewing

Acquisition

Accession

2025.1

Source or Donor

Gordon Dempster

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Location

* Untyped Location

C11S2