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Atkinson’s Brewery Ltd plastic tray dating from the late 1940s.<\/p>\n

Company Foundation and Early Years<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The business was founded as Atkinson Brothers in 1855. The Aston Park Brewery was located on Queen’s Road, Aston, Birmingham.
\nIn 1888 the Company’s three letter ‘A’s trade mark was registered.
\nThe Company, and its Aston Park Brewery, was registered as Atkinson’s Brewery Ltd in 1898.<\/p>\n

The Acquisition Years<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In the 1910s and 1920s the Company acquired three breweries.
\nIn 1919 Atkinson’s took over George Hill of Blakenhall, near Wolverhampton, and purchased Rogers & Calcutt Ltd, of Wolverhampton, in 1925.
\nHowever the most sizeable acquisition was that of Peter Walker & Co. Ltd of Burton-on-Trent in 1925, with 100 tied houses.
\nThe Company’s last purchase was Twist’s Brewery Ltd of Walsall in 1950, with 20 public houses.<\/p>\n

Takeover and Closure<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Aston Park Brewery was acquired by Mitchells & Butlers Ltd in 1959.
\nMitchells & Butlers Ltd merged with Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton Ltd forming Bass, Mitchells & Butlers Ltd in 1961, and the Aston Park Brewery with over 200 public houses, closed shortly afterwards in 1962.<\/p>\n

This is one of only three pre 1970 plastic trays I have in my entire collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atkinson’s Brewery Ltd plastic tray dating from the late 1940s.
\nThe Aston Park Brewery was based in Birmingham, West Midlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[377],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4237","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-england-1940s","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\/4237","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=4237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}