Mowbray & Co. Ltd Round Black Backed Steel

Mowbray & Co. Ltd black backed steel tray dating from the late 1930s.

Foundation of Mowbray's

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 in Grantham.

Mowbray & Co. Ltd Registration

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 with 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 it acquired G. & H.R.Hunt of Stamford in 1927 with 61 tied houses.

J.W.Green Ltd Takeover

The Grantham Brewery, with 200 tied houses, was 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.