{"id":3589,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/?post_type=product&#038;p=3589"},"modified":"2025-11-03T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:37:05","slug":"melbourne-brewery-leeds-ltd-square-tin","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/product\/melbourne-brewery-leeds-ltd-square-tin\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd Square Tin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd tin tray dating from 1958.<\/p>\n<p>The business was registered as the Leeds &amp; Wakefield Breweries Ltd in 1889 to amalgamate the Melbourne Brewery of Kirk, Matthews &amp; Co. Ltd, Leeds, and Carter &amp; Sons Victoria Brewery of Wakefield with 67 tied houses.<br \/>\nThe Melbourne Brewery was based on Regent Street in Leeds.<br \/>\nThe name was changed to Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd in December 1957 when it was run by the Ford brothers.<br \/>\nIn 1958 Melbourne&#8217;s acquired the Derwent Brewery of Russells &amp; Wrangham Ltd in Malton with 90 public houses.<br \/>\nThe Melbourne Brewery, with 245 public houses, was acquired by Joshua Tetley &amp; Son Ltd in 1960 and brewing ceased in 1961.<br \/>\nThe brewery was demolished in 1973.<br \/>\nMelbourne&#8217;s iconic bowing courtier trade mark can still be seen in and around Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>Copy and paste the link below for an insight into the brewing process at Melbourne&#8217;s brewery.<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-whats-brewing-1959-online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne Brewery (Leeds) Ltd tin tray dating from 1958.<br \/>\nThe Melbourne Brewery was based in Leeds, West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[378],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3589","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-england-1950s","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3589","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=3589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}