Kemp Town Brewery ceramic ashtray dating from the 1930s.<\/p>\n
The Bristol Brewery & The Abbey Family<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Bristol Brewery was founded by a coal merchant, William Hallett, on Seymour Road, Brighton, in the 1840s. The Kemp Town Brewery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n From 1908 the brewery name changed to the Kemp Town Brewery. Charrington & Co. Ltd Takeover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The Company, its brewery and 236 public houses, was acquired by Charrington & Co. Ltd in 1954 and the final beer was brewed and bottled in 1964. The manufacturer’s mark states – James Green & Nephew Ltd Designers & Manufacturers Stoke & London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kemp Town Brewery ceramic ashtray dating from the 1930s.
\nThe Bristol Brewery was jointly run by William and Henry Abbey from 1854.
\nWhen William died in 1862 the business passed into the hands of the Abbey family.
\nThe Company traded as Abbey & Sons.
\nThe Abbey’s attempted to brew lager in 1887 but within two years the experiment had failed and the Company returned to brewing stout together with its strong ales, pale ales, and mild.
\nThe Abbey’s acquired local competitor H.B.Longhurst & Son Anchor Ale Brewery of Brighton in 1899.
\nIn 1907 the maltings were completely destroyed by a fire when a kiln overheated.<\/p>\n
\nHenry Abbey died in 1911.
\nBefore World War I the Company acquired Young & Rawley Ltd of Eastbourne with it Lion Brewery and 15 public houses in 1914.
\nIn 1919 it acquired J.Dudney, Son & Co. of Portslade and resold the brewery and several public houses to Smithers & Sons Ltd of Brighton.
\nThe Company’s final acquisition was Harry Chapman’s Tower Brewery of Worthing in 1924.
\nThe Company was registered as the Kemp Town Brewery (Brighton) Ltd in 1933 to acquire Abbey’s Kemp Town Brewery.<\/p>\n
\nThe brewery was vacated in 1965 and the main site was purchased by Brighton College in 1967.
\nThe remaining buildings were sold in 1970 for the Seymour housing development.
\nIn 1989 a new Kemp Town Brewery Co. Ltd opened at the Hand in Hand public house.<\/p>\n
\nThe brewery was based in Brighton, East Sussex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[265],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5075","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ashtrays","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\/5075","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=5075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}