Melbourne Brewery Brass

Object/Artifact

-

Waterperry Museum

Name/Title

Melbourne Brewery Brass

Entry/Object ID

2025.1.298

Description

Melbourne Brewery Leeds - Brewery Beer Barrel Brass Collar

Context

Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd, Melbourne Brewery, Regent Street / Plum Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Registered in December 1889 as the Leeds & Wakefield Breweries Ltd to amalgamate: Kirk, Matthews, Melbourne Brewery and Carter & Sons, Victoria Brewery, Wakefield. Name changed to Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd in December 1957. Acquired by Joshua Tetley & Son Ltd in 1960 and brewing ceased one year later. Owned 245 public houses. Source Brewery History Society.

Category

Breweries and Brewing

Acquisition

Accession

2025.1

Source or Donor

Gordon Dempster

Acquisition Method

Transfer

Location

* Untyped Location

C12S1