Higson's Brewery Ltd Round Alloy

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Higson's Brewery Ltd alloy tray dating from the early 1950s. The Mersey Brewery was based on Stanhope Street, in Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside.

Higson's Brewery Ltd alloy tray dating from the early 1950s. The business was founded by brewer, William Harvey, at Daleside in Liverpool in 1780. William built the Cheapside Brewery in Liverpool, in 1796. His son Enoch, ran the Cheapside Brewery trading as Fairclough & Harvey. The Harvey family continued as a major brewer until 1846, when the brewery was leased from the Harvey family by Thomas Howard. Here the direct connection to the Higson family began. In the 1850s Howard employed Daniel Higson as a cashier and office manager. On his death, in 1865, Howard changed his will and left his entire personal estate and effects to Daniel Higson. Thus the Cheapside Brewery became associated with the name of Higson. At the time of registration Daniel Higson Sr became Chairman, and his sons John Hewitt Higson and Daniel Howard Higson Jr became Managing Director and Company Secretary respectively. At that time the brewery was not owned by the Higsons, it was leased from the Executors of the Robert Ellison Harvey. The original Cheapside Brewery operated there until 1915 when it was demolished. Higson immediately took over the business of Thomas Howard as Executor. The executorship ended in 1875 and, in 1888, the Company was registered as Daniel Higson Ltd. It was relatively small compared to other Liverpool and Birkenhead breweries, and it owned very few public houses. In the 1910s Daniel's third son William Timpron Higson had joined the business and ran it together with his two older brothers. In the early 1900s the business struggled. In 1909 the Cheapside Brewery lease had only been extended by three years, and in 1912 the site was sold to the Post Office. In January 1914 the Company moved from the Cheapside Brewery to the Windsor Brewery on Upper Parliament Street, which had previously been occupied by Duncan Glimour & Co. Ltd of Sheffield. Daniel Higson died in 1914. The Windsor Brewery was renamed the Cheapside Brewery. In 1915 Smith, Mumford & Co., a small Liverpool brewery was purchased by Higsons. In 1916 the Higson family decided to sell their business as a going concern. J.Sykes & Co. Ltd of Liverpool required a brewery from which to brew and supply its public houses and instructed solicitor W.E.Corbett to oversee the deal. In 1918 Daniel Higson Ltd was acquired and the August Board meeting was the last to be attended by a Higson family member. After the purchase of Daniel Higson Ltd, W.E.Corbett emerged as the dominant figure on the Skyes Board. In 1919 he became Chairman and Managing Director. His style was autocratic but his single mindedness, determination, and ability to gets things done, was one of the main reasons that the business survived and prospered during a difficult inter-war period. Corbett concentrated his efforts on expansion, with the result being the purchase of three Liverpool breweries in the 1910s and 1920s. E.Spragg & Co. Ltd and its Wallasey Vale Brewery was acquired in 1919, but more significantly Peter Walker & Robert Cain Ltd sold Robert Cain & Sons Ltd's Mersey Brewery to Higsons in 1923. Daniel Higson Ltd immediately transferred all its brewing activities from Upper Parliament Street to the Mersey Brewery on Stanhope Street. Bottling ceased at Upper Parliament Street and this was contracted out to other breweries until 1955. Joseph Jones & Co. (Knotty Ash) Ltd Knotty Ash Brewery and its 68 public houses was taken over in 1927 and closed the following year. In 1931 Corbett retired from the business. In 1937 Daniel Higson Ltd was wound up and its assets were used to become a public company and it was re-registered as Higson's Brewery Ltd. By the time war broke out in 1939 Higsons was well placed for further expansion. In 1946 the Company acquired James Mellor & Sons Ltd, a small Liverpool brewery. In 1955 a new bottling plant was created and in 1963 a new kegging facility was added. The 1960s saw a real upturn in Higson's financial results. By 1980 Higson's Brewery Ltd was the only independent brewer in Merseyside and a new brewhouse, capable of producing lager, was added in 1983. The Company was acquired by Boddington's Breweries Ltd in 1985 and then passed to Whitbread & Co. Ltd in 1989, when Boddingtons became part of Whitbread. Under the ownership of Whitbread, production was switched to Castle Eden and brewing ceased for Higsons in 1990. The Mersey Brewery was reopened after a management buy-out, named GB Breweries, in 1990 which sold it to a Danish brewery group, Faxe Bryggeri A/S, in 1991. The Company and its Mersey Brewery traded as Robert Cain & Co. Ltd, renamed Robert Cain Brewery Ltd, but the venture failed and it was sold in 2002. The business was acquired by the Dusanji brothers and traded as Cains Beer Company plc. After entering into administration in 2008 the Dusanji brothers re-purchased the brewery but brewing ceased in 2013. In 2018 plans were approved to create Cains Brewery Village including a £7m refurbishment of the site to recommence brewing once gain. Attempts to resurrect the Higsons beer brand name commenced separately in 2005 but had failed by 2008.

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Brewery Origin England
County Merseyside
Reverse Finish Standard
Tray Manufacturer Unknown
Tray Material Alloy
Year Of Manufacture 1950
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