Courage & Co. Ltd Round Tin

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Courage & Co. Ltd tin tray dating from the 1950s. The Anchor Brewery was based in Bermondsey, Greater London.
Courage & Co. Ltd tin tray dating from the 1950s. The Company was founded in 1787 by John Courage at the Anchor Brewhouse in Horsleydown, Bermondsey. In 1888 the business was registered as Courage & Co. Ltd. In 1903 Courage & Co. Ltd purchased the Alton Brewery Co. for the production of pale ale. Between the two World Wars Courage pursued an acquisitions strategy which resulted in the purchase of five breweries in the South of England including the Camden Brewery Co. Ltd in 1923, Farnham United Breweries Ltd in 1927, Noakes & Co. Ltd in 1930, C.N.Kidd & Son Ltd in 1937 and Hodgson's Kingston Brewery Co Ltd in 1943. The Hodgson's Stout brand name was used by Courage until the 1950s. in the 1950s and 1960s Courage & Co. Ltd was involved in two significant mergers. Firstly, in 1955, it merged with Barclay, Perkins & Co. Ltd whose Anchor Brewery was based in Southwark close to Courage's own Anchor Brewery. The Company became Courage & Barclay Ltd. After a further merger with H. & G.Simonds Ltd, based in Reading, the Company name changed again to Courage, Barclay, Simonds & Co. Ltd, in 1960 and Courage's Alton Brewery was closed as a result. Further acquisitions during the 1960s and early 1970s included Bristol Brewery Georges & Co. Ltd in 1961, Harman's Uxbridge Brewery Ltd in 1962, James Hole & Co. Ltd in 1967, John Smith's Tadcaster Brewery Co. Ltd in 1970 and finally Plymouth Breweries Ltd also in 1970. By 1970 the Company name had been simplified to Courage Ltd and it was operating six breweries in London, Reading, Bristol, Newark, Tadcaster and Plymouth. In 1970 Courage's Anchor Brewery became known as Courage (Eastern) Ltd. In 1972 the Imperial Tobacco Group Ltd acquired Courage Ltd and in 1978 built a vast new new brewery at Worton Grange near Reading. The majoity of Courage's beers were transferred to the new Berkshire Brewery as it later became named. The existence of the new state-of-the-art brewery resulted in the closure of Simond's Bridge Street Brewery in 1979, Hole's Castle Brewery in 1983, The Regent Brewery based in Plymouth in 1983 and sadly Courage's original Anchor Brewery in 1981. The Tadcaster and Bristol breweries both survived due to their geographical importance for the supply of beers to the North and West of England. From the 1990s to date, the remaining Courage breweries, the pub estate and its beer brands were the focus of a number of takeovers and mergers. The Imperial Tobacco Group Ltd was taken over by the Hanson Trust plc in 1986 who then sold Courage to Elders IXL, renamed the Foster's Brewing Group in 1990. In 1991 Foster's took over all the remaining Grand Metropolitan plc breweries, combining them with the Courage business, in exchange for Courage's old public houses, which had been jointly run with the Inntrepreneur Pub Co. In 1995 Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd purchased all of Foster's breweries, creating Scottish Courage Ltd as its brewing arm. John Smith's, based in Tadcaster, is the only remaining ex Courage brewery still operating and is now owned by Heineken who acquired it in 2008. The rights for brewing, marketing and selling the Courage beer brands were sold to Wells & Young's Ltd, based in Bedford, in 2007. In 2017 Marstons PLC acquired all the Courage brand names including Courage Directors and Courage Bitter.
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Brewery Origin England
County Greater London
Reverse Finish Standard
Tray Manufacturer Unknown
Tray Material Tin
Year Of Manufacture 1954
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