John Joule & Sons Ltd hammered gold tin tray dating from the 1960s.<\/p>\n
Francis Joule Founder<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In 1758 maltster Francis Joule, acquired the White Horse Inn and brewhouse in Stone. John Joule & Sons Ltd Registration<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Despite the majority shareholding being held by the Hardings and the Parringtons, the Company was registered as John Joule & Sons Ltd in 1898. The Bass Charrington Ltd Takeover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Sadly for Joules, Bass Charrington Ltd managed to acquire the business, with 214 public houses in 1968. The manufacturer’s mark states – Samuel Groves & Co. Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Joule & Sons Ltd hammered gold tin tray dating from the 1960s.
\nIn 1780 he purchased another brewery on the High Street in Stone, which supplied Joule’s own outlets and other local public houses.
\nThe Stone business flourished, and further land was acquired on the High Street to allow additional production.
\nIn 1813 Francis’ son, John Joule, inherited the brewery which traded as John Joule & Sons.
\nWhen John died in 1868 he left the business in a strong financial position.
\nBefore his death, John registered the famous Joules Red Cross trade mark, making it the 6th oldest in the world.
\nJohn’s second son, John Smith Joule, then took over the running of the brewery.
\nIn 1873 the direct Joule family connection ended when the business was sold to Liverpool brewers, John Parrington, Thomas Harding & John Harding.
\nA building housing a beer and bottling store, and stables, was built alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal in 1881.
\nThe stables provided accommodation for forty horses and twenty drays used for local deliveries until the introduction of lorries in the 20th century.<\/p>\n
\nThe high quality of its beers became internationally recognised and, in addition to the home market, they were distributed to the Antipodes, Europe and the USA.
\nJoule’s beer was notably recorded as stock on board HMS Titanic when it sank in 1912.
\nMany awards were won by Joules over the years including 1919, 1925. 1926, 1932, 1935, 1937 and finally in 1957, both for its draught and bottled beers.
\nThroughout the 20th century John Joules & Co Ltd and Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd had an acrimonious rivalry.
\nBoth companies were regional giants, were very ambitious, and both fought for dominance in the Indian and the US markets.
\nIn terms of brewery industry awards, Joules held the upper hand.<\/p>\n
\nBass was swift, brutal and ruthless, making every employee and every director redundant in 1974. Brewing ceased that year.
\nMost of the buildings were demolished, except the offices in the High Street and the beer and bottling store which backed on to the Trent and Mersey Canal.
\nIn 2009, Molson-Coors Brewing UK Ltd, granted a ‘brand license’ to a local craft brewer to once again brew Joules beer.
\nA small Joules brewery was established in Market Drayton in 2010.<\/p>\n
\nThe brewery was based in Stone, Staffordshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9727,"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-3984","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\/3984","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=3984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}