Mowbray & Co. Ltd Round Black Backed Steel

Mowbray & Co. Ltd black backed steel tray dating from the late 1930s. Samuel Hall Mowbray began brewing and selling his beer in Grantham in 1828. The business traded as Mowbray, Robertson & Burbridge's Grantham Brewery. By 1842 the firm's offices were situated on London Road and the brewery on Commercial Road, Grantham. In 1888 the Company was registered as Mowbray & Co. Ltd to acquire Mowbray & Co. and Burbridge & Hutchinson, wine and spirit merchants. Over the next few decades Mowbray's expanded rapidly acquiring Redhead & Co. Spittlegate Brewery of Grantham in 1891 and Dawber & Co. of Lincoln and its 52 public houses, in 1905. In 1919 the firm was described in Kelly's Lincolnshire business directory as 'Mowbray & Co. Ltd brewers, maltsters & mineral water manufacturers, Commercial Road & London Road, and wine & cigar merchants, Finkin Street'. Mowbray's continued to trade successfully and a further brewery, G. & H.R.Hunt of Stamford, was purchased in 1927 with 61 tied houses. The Grantham Brewery and 200 tied houses were acquired by J.W.Green Ltd in 1952. J.W.Green Ltd acquired Flower & Sons Ltd in 1954 and the business was renamed Flowers Breweries (East Midlands) Ltd in 1959. The Company was taken over by Whitbread & Co. Ltd in 1961 which closed the Grantham Brewery in 1964. The manufacturer's mark states - Reginald Corfield Ltd Lombard Road. London S.W.19.