{"id":3862,"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=3862"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:08:16","slug":"wrekin-brewery-co-ltd-round-black-backed-steel","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/product\/wrekin-brewery-co-ltd-round-black-backed-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrekin Brewery Co. Ltd Round Black Backed Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wrekin Brewery Co. Ltd black backed steel tray dating from the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Foundation of the Wrekin Brewery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The business was founded on Market Street in Wellington by Thomas Taylor in 1870 and moved to larger premises on Market Street soon afterwards.<br \/>\nAfter several changes of ownership, the brewery was purchased at auction by Owen Downey Murphy in 1921.<br \/>\nThe firm was registered as the Wrekin Brewery Co. Ltd in 1922.<br \/>\nThe Company purchased the Red Lion Brewery Co. Ltd in Wellington in 1924, with 9 public houses.<br \/>\nFrom 1929 Murphy expanded the business through the speedy acquisition of public houses.<br \/>\nBy the mid-1940s the estate totalled around 140 tied houses.<br \/>\nMurphy refused to sell the business to Marston, Thompson &amp; Evershed Ltd before his death in the 1950s.<br \/>\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<p><em><strong>Greenall Whitley &amp; Co. Ltd Takeover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The brewery was acquired by Greenall Whitley &amp; Co. Ltd in 1966 with 94 public houses.<br \/>\nGreenall&#8217;s transferred brewing to Wem in Shropshire in 1969, and brewing ceased in Wellington.<br \/>\nThe brewery was demolished in 1975.<br \/>\nThe brand name reappeared in Market Street in 2014 when the Ironbridge Brewery Ltd reintroduced Wrekin beers.<br \/>\nWrekin is currently brewed at the Pheasant Inn on Market Street by the Wrekin Brewery Company.<\/p>\n<p>The only manufacturer&#8217;s mark is a simple number &#8211; 5909<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrekin Brewery Co. Ltd black backed steel tray dating from the 1930s.<br \/>\nThe brewery was based in Wellington, Shropshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[376],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3862","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-england-1930s","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\/3862","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=3862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}