Worksop & Retford Brewery Co. Ltd tin tray dating from 1958.<\/p>\n
Foundation of the Prior Well Brewery Co.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Prior Well Brewery Co. was established between Priorwell Road and Kilton Road in Worksop in 1861 by local timber merchant Joseph Garside & Alderson and Daniel Fossick Alderson. The brewery used water from the well associated with the Worksop Priory. Smith & Nephew<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Smith & Nephew owned the Cresswell Holme Brewery on Dock Road in Worksop, and the Old Brewery situated at Carolgate Bridge in East Retford. Worksop & Retford Brewery Co. Ltd<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Company was registered in 1881 as the Worksop & Retford Brewery Co. Ltd to acquire the Prior Well Brewery Co. and Smith & Nephew. An Acquisition & Further Brewing Awards<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In 1939 Worksop & Retford Breweries Ltd acquired the Old Albion Brewery on Eccleshall Road in Sheffield with 52 public houses. Tennant Brothers Takeover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Prior Well Brewery, with 192 public houses, was acquired by Tennant Brothers Ltd of Sheffield in 1959. The manufacturer’s mark states – Reginald Corfield Ltd Lombard Road. London. S.W.19. 581<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Worksop & Retford Brewery Co. Ltd tin tray dating from 1958.
\nIn 1881, Alderson died while duck shooting.<\/p>\n
\nThe Old Brewery had been purchased from Hodgkinson & Co. in the 1870s.
\nIn 1881 the partnership acquired the Southwell Brewery Company in Southwell.
\nSmith & Nephew owned 10 public houses.<\/p>\n
\nAfter the amalgamation of the two firms all brewing was transferred to the Priorwell Brewery in Worksop.
\nThe Old Brewery was initially retained, but was then sold to Birkett & Co. Ltd, chemical manure manufacturers, which traded there until 1926.
\nSmith & Nephew’s trade mark was an oak tree surrounded by oak leaves. This was the emblem of Worksop town. The new Company combined the oak tree and a red iron cross similar to that of the brewer Thomas Salt & Co. Ltd of Burton-on-Trent.
\nThe Company owned public houses in the counties of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Yorkshire.
\nWhen Joseph Garside died in 1893, the Company was brewing a range of thirteen draught ales.
\nThe Company gained a reputation for the quality of it ales and this was recognised when it won a second prize silver medal at the Brewers’ Exhibitions in 1913 and 1914.<\/p>\n
\nBrewing ceased at the Old Albion Brewery in 1950 when the premises were sold to a firm of toolmakers.
\n‘Priorwell’ was registered as a trade mark in 1951.
\nPriorwell Prize Stout in a bottle, referred to as the ‘Cream of Stouts’, gained gold and silver medals in 1952 and 1954 at the Brewers’ Exhibition.
\nDundee nut brown bottled beer won a silver medal in 1954.
\nOne of the Company’s beers it brewed in winter was ‘Strong Mild Ale’ better known as ‘Donovan’, named after the sixth Duke of Portland, a local landowner’s famous racehorse.
\nDonovan was awarded a diploma at the British Bottlers Institute Competition in 1955.
\nDon John, a pale coloured bottled beer, also won a gold medal in 1955.<\/p>\n
\nBrewing ceased at Worksop in 1960 and the brewery was demolished in 1962.
\nTennants continued to brew Don John Ale at Sheffield until 1963.<\/p>\n
\nThe Prior Well Brewery was based in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9868,"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-4134","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\/4134","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=4134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4134"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}