Whitworth, Son & Nephew Ltd alloy tray dating from the early 1950s.<\/p>\n
The Wath Brewery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n James Utley established the Wath Brewery in 1865, and by 1867 he was trading as James Utley & Co. ‘brewers of ales and porter’. 20th Century Trading & Expansion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In 1900 the Company introduced its ‘Sheaf of Barley’ trade mark. John Smith’s Tadcaster Brewery Co. Ltd Takeover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Wath Brewery, with 140 hotels, public houses and off-licences, was acquired by John Smith’s Tadcaster Brewery Co. Ltd in 1958 and brewing ceased. The manufacturer’s mark states – MB 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whitworth, Son & Nephew Ltd alloy tray dating from the early 1950s.
\nWhen James Utley retired in 1880 maltster, Spedding Whitworth, acquired the business.
\nOnce established at the Wath Brewery, Spedding Whitworth’s progress was spectacular.
\nBy 1891, when the Company was registered as Whitworth, Son & Nephew Ltd, the estate totalled 46 tied houses and off-licences.
\nSpedding’s son, Henry Whitworth became its Chairman. By the turn of the century, he was joined by James Henry Kelley and his brother, Frederick Arthur Kelley, who was the owner of Whitmarsh, Watson’s Brewery of Sheffield.
\nIn 1896 the Company took over Thomas Windle in Doncaster which owned the Old Exchange Brewery and the Crown Brewery with 8 public houses. Both breweries operated for a number of years. The Old Exchange Brewery was closed in 1915 and the Crown Brewery brewed until 1925, when it was sold to Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd.<\/p>\n
\nThe brewery’s sales of mild, bitter, porter and stout beers were on the increase.
\nThe steady purchase of tied houses and off-licences continued with a further 26 added to its estate by 1903.
\nIn 1903 Whitworth’s acquired the Burton Weir Brewery of Thomas Marrion & Co. Ltd in Sheffield, and its 66 houses were divided equally with Whitmarsh, Watson & Co. Ltd.
\nIn 1906 the Company purchased the nearby Holywell Brewery of Nicholson Brothers Ltd with 29 public houses and off-licences. The Holywell Brewery was sold in 1912.
\nWhitworth, Son & Nephew Ltd continued to purchase public houses and off-licences and it added another 14 between 1907 and 1911.
\nWhitworth’s took over Dickinson’s Old Brewery in Doncaster in 1912, and the Farmer’s Brewery Co. Ltd in Everton, Nottinghamshire, in 1926.
\nDue to a serious fire in 1954 considerable rebuilding of the brewery was required.<\/p>\n
\nThe Company was wound up in 1965.
\nOnly a bottling shed remains.<\/p>\n
\nThe Wath Brewery was based in Wath-Upon-Dearne, South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9529,"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-3775","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\/3775","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=3775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}