{"id":4128,"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=4128"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:40:14","slug":"drybrough-co-ltd-owned-by-watney-mann-ltd-square-tin","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/product\/drybrough-co-ltd-owned-by-watney-mann-ltd-square-tin\/","title":{"rendered":"Drybrough &#038; Co. Ltd (Owned by Watney Mann Ltd) Square Tin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drybrough &amp; Co. Ltd tin tray dating from the early 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Drybrough family had been brewing in Edinburgh before 1750 when Drybrough &amp; Co. was founded.<br \/>\nThey brewed at various sites until 1892, when the business was moved to a newly built Craigmillar Brewery, also based in Edinburgh.<br \/>\nThe Company was registered as Drybrough &amp; Co. Ltd in 1895.<br \/>\nThe Company supplied its beers mainly in the South and South West of Scotland.<br \/>\nIt also produced its beers for the Alnwick Brewery Co. Ltd, from 1963 to 1978, and to Ballingall &amp; Sons Ltd of Dundee, from 1964 to 1968.<br \/>\nThe Craigmillar Brewery, with 441 public houses, was acquired by Watney Mann Ltd in 1965.<br \/>\nIn 1987, Watney, Mann &amp; Truman Breweries Ltd, then the under the ownership of Grand Metropolitan Hotels Ltd, sold the Company to Allied-Lyons plc and brewing ceased at the Craigmillar Brewery days after the sale.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer&#8217;s mark states &#8211; MB\/HCW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drybrough &amp; Co. Ltd tin tray dating from the early 1970s.<br \/>\nThe Craigmillar Brewery was based in Edinburgh, Lothian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[390],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4128","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-scotland-1970s","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\/4128","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=4128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}