{"id":4970,"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=4970"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:39:05","slug":"friary-holroyd-healys-breweries-ltd-metal-menu-holder","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/product\/friary-holroyd-healys-breweries-ltd-metal-menu-holder\/","title":{"rendered":"Friary, Holroyd &#038; Healy&#8217;s Breweries Ltd Metal Menu Holder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friary, Holroyd &amp; Healy&#8217;s Breweries Ltd metal menu holder dating from the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thomas Taunton &#8211; Guildford Breweries<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Friary Brewery, on Commercial Road, Guildford, was established in 1865.<br \/>\nThomas Taunton, who also ran the Cannon Brewery in Guildford, developed the business during the latter part of the 19th century.<br \/>\nHe traded as Thomas &amp; Silas Taunton, and the firm was described as &#8216;Ale &amp; Porter Brewers, and Wine &amp; Spirit Merchants&#8217;. The business included two breweries, the Canon Brewery and the Friary Brewery, both in Guildford, and stores in Aldershot and the Isle of Wight.<br \/>\nAround 1870, the Taunton&#8217;s had a short-lived partnership with the wealthy Hoskins-Master family, who took full control of the Friary Brewery in 1873.<br \/>\nThe Hoskins-Masters immediately expanded the brewery site and started to purchase their own public houses.<br \/>\nWhen George Holroyd&#8217;s Byfleet Brewery, with 15 public houses, was acquired in 1889, the Company was registered as Friary &amp; Holroyd Ltd.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Friary, Holroyd &amp; Healy&#8217;s Breweries Ltd<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Healy &amp; Co. of Chertsey, with its Crown Brewery and 27 public houses, was purchased in 1890, but it was not until 1895 that the Company was registered as Friary, Holroyd &amp; Healy&#8217;s Breweries Ltd.<br \/>\nThe Chertsey Brewery closed in 1898, and the Byfleet Brewery closed in 1909. All brewing was concentrated at the Friary Brewery in Guildford.<br \/>\nIn 1910 the Company acquired Lambert &amp; Norris Ltd of Arundel in West Sussex, with 81 public houses.<br \/>\nLambert &amp; Norris Ltd became a subsidiary of Friary, Holroyd &amp; Healy&#8217;s Breweries Ltd.<br \/>\nBy 1928 the Company&#8217;s tied estate totalled over 400 public houses.<br \/>\nLambert &amp; Norris Ltd was voluntarily liquidated in 1935 when Its Eagle brewery was closed, but the site was used as a depot until 1955.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Friary Meux Ltd<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Friary Brewery merged with Meux&#8217;s Brewery Co. Ltd in 1956 to form Friary Meux Ltd.<br \/>\nThe merged Company entered into liquidation in 1961, and was acquired by Allied Breweries Ltd, with 672 public houses, and 150 off-licences.<br \/>\nMeux&#8217;s Horseshoe Brewery ceased production in 1964.<br \/>\nBrewing ceased in 1969, when all production was transferred to Ind Coope&#8217;s brewery in Romford, Essex.<br \/>\nThe Friary Brewery was demolished during 1973 and 1974.<br \/>\nThe site was redeveloped as a shopping centre and bus station.<br \/>\nThe Friary Meux brand was later revived by Allied Breweries Ltd in 1979, but it was discontinued by the Carlsberg-Tetley Group in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friary, Holroyd &amp; Healy&#8217;s Breweries Ltd metal menu holder dating from the 1950s.<br \/>\nThe Friary Brewery was based in Guildford, Surrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[273],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4970","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-menu-holders","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\/4970","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=4970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4970"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=4970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}