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Wrekin Brewery Co. Ltd tin tray dating from the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Foundation of the Wrekin Brewery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The business was founded on Market Street in Wellington by Thomas Taylor in 1870 and moved to larger premises on Market Street soon afterwards.
\nAfter several changes of ownership, the brewery was purchased at auction by Owen Downey Murphy in 1921.
\nThe firm was registered as the Wrekin Brewery Co. Ltd in 1922.
\nThe Company purchased the Red Lion Brewery Co. Ltd in Wellington in 1924, with 9 public houses.
\nFrom 1929 Murphy expanded the business through the speedy acquisition of public houses.
\nBy the mid-1940s the estate totalled around 140 tied houses.
\nMurphy refused to sell the business to Marston, Thompson & Evershed Ltd before his death in the 1950s.
\nThe business continued to be run under the direction of his sons who experienced further growth through sales of its bottled beers and lager.<\/p>\n

Greenall Whitley & Co. Ltd Takeover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The brewery was acquired by Greenall Whitley & Co. Ltd in 1966 with 94 public houses.
\nGreenall’s transferred brewing to Wem in Shropshire in 1969, and brewing ceased in Wellington.
\nThe brewery was demolished in 1975.
\nThe brand name reappeared in Market Street in 2014 when the Ironbridge Brewery Ltd reintroduced Wrekin beers.
\nWrekin is currently brewed at the Pheasant Inn on Market Street by the Wrekin Brewery Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wrekin Brewery Co. Ltd tin tray dating from the 1960s.
\nThe brewery was based in Wellington, Shropshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[379],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13830","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-england-1960s","8":"first","9":"outofstock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/13830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=13830"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=13830"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=13830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}