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Jennings Brothers Ltd ceramic matchstriker dating from the 1900s.<\/p>\n

Origins of the Business<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Company was established as a family concern in 1828 in the village of Lorton, between Buttermere and Cockermouth in the Lake District.
\nThe brewery was started by John Jennings, son of William Jennings, a maltster.
\nJennings brewed exclusively in Lorton until 1874 when it purchased Horace Wyndham’s Castle Brewery in Cockermouth.
\nThe Lorton brewery closed in 1881.<\/p>\n

Jennings Brothers Ltd Registration<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Three Jennings brothers registered the business in 1887 with 41 public houses.
\nThe Company purchased a number of small local Westmorland breweries in 1921 and Faulder’s Brewery Co. Ltd’s Browfoot Brewery of Keswick in 1927.<\/p>\n

Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd Takeover<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Company remained in the family until 2005 when it was purchased by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries Ltd with 127 public houses.
\nThe distribution centre in Workington was closed shortly afterwards.
\nAfter the business was renamed Marston’s PLC in 2007 some investment was made on the Cockermouth site including the expansion of its fermenting and racking capacity.
\nA merger of Marston’s PLC and the UK arm of the Carlsberg Group in 2020 was the start of the demise of the Castle Brewery which was closed in 2022.<\/p>\n

The manufacturer’s mark states – J.A.Campbell 61 Royal Avenue Belfast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennings Brothers Ltd ceramic matchstriker dating from the 1900s.
\nThe Castle Brewery was based in Cockermouth in Cumbria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[272],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5569","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-matchstrikers","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\/5569","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=5569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brewerytrays.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}