William Stones Ltd tin tray dating from the 1950s.<\/p>\n
Watts & Stones Cannon Brewery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n In 1849 William Stones and Joseph Watts formed a partnership to learn brewing at the Cannon Brewery on Acorn Street in the Shalesmoor area of Sheffield. William Stones Expansion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Once established in Neepsend, William Stones’ business boomed. William Stones Ltd Registration & Further Expansion<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The business was registered in 1895 as William Stones Ltd with a tied estate of 84 pubs. Bass Charrington Ltd Takeover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n William Stones Ltd with 257 public houses was acquired by Bass Charrington Ltd in 1968. The manufacturer’s mark states – Reginald Corfield Ltd Lombard Road, London. S.W.19. 599<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" William Stones Ltd tin tray dating from the 1950s.
\nThey traded as Watts & Stones and purchased their first property, the Kelham Tavern, in 1852.
\nWatts died in 1854 and William Stones became the firm’s sole owner.
\nExpansion was slow at first, but by 1864 the firm had acquired about 10 public houses.
\nIn 1865 William Stones purchased land on Rutland Road in the Neepsend area of the city and purchased the Crown Inn which later became the brewery tap.
\nIn 1868 Stones took over the lease of Shepherd, Green & Hatfields’ Neepsend Brewery and renamed it the Cannon Brewery after his original premises.<\/p>\n
\nIn 1880 he purchased two maltings in Worksop, and between 1865 and 1893 he acquired 34 public houses.
\nBy the time he died in 1894 William Stones was one of the weathiest men in Sheffield.
\nHe bequeathed the business to his cashier, James Haynes, and a corn miller, Richard Wigfull.<\/p>\n
\nIn 1896 William Stones Ltd extended its tied estate from Sheffield and Chesterfield, to Huddersfield.
\nIn 1911 the Company purchased the Brunswick Brewery of Chambers & Co. Ltd in Sheffield with 14 public houses.
\nThe Company continued to trade successfully and between 1913 and 1953 it purchased a further 24 public houses in South Yorkshire.
\nIn 1954 William Stones Ltd and Tennant Brothers Ltd jointly took over the Sheffield Free Co. Ltd but more significantly, in the same year, it acquired Mappin’s Brewery Ltd of Rotherham with 59 public houses. The acquisition took Stones’ total estate to well over 200 public houses.
\nIn 1959 the Company purchased a bottling firm, Ward & Sons of Swinton, which enabled Stones to expand its bottling capacity and to bottle national beers including Bass and Guinness.
\nIts own bottling plant in Neepsend had limited ouput which resulted in the Company transferring all its bottling to Swinton in 1961, and allowing it to redevelop the Cannon Brewery site.<\/p>\n
\nAs a subsidiary of Bass Charrington Ltd, William Stones Ltd was given a fair amount of autonomy, but the takeover did result in the closure of the Swinton bottling plant and the Worksop maltings.
\nBass continued to operate the Cannon Brewery until 1998 when all production of Stones’ beers was transferred to Burton-on-Trent and Tadcaster.
\nIn 2000 Bass sold its breweries and the Stones brand to Belgian brewer Interbrew.
\nInterbrew contracted the brewing of Stones cask ales to Marstons PLC.
\nThe Competition Commission ordered Interbrew to sell the Stones brand in 2002 which they did to the American Coors Brewing Co., later named Molson Coors.
\nThe keg version of Stones Bitter is now brewed at the old Tadcaster Tower Brewery and the canned version is brewed in Burton-on-Trent.
\nThe cask product was brewed at the Highgate Brewery in Walsall and then transferred to Everard’s brewery in 2005.
\nCask ales ceased to be brewed in 2015.
\nThe Maltings survived as offices and much of the Cannon Brewery is still standing, albeit in a derelict state.<\/p>\n
\nThe Cannon Brewery was based in the Neepsend area in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10733,"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-5280","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\/5280","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=5280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}