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The Hull Brewery Company Limited was a brewery

Brewery

A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of beer, though beer can be made at home, and has been for much of beer's history. A company which makes beer is called either a brewery or a brewing company....

 registered in 1888 and based in Hull

Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

, in northern England. It was taken over by Northern Foods

Northern Foods

Northern Foods Ltd is a British food manufacturer headquartered in Leeds, England. It was formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index. The company was scheduled to merge with Greencore Group in 2011 to form Essenta Foods, the group being...

 in 1972 and bought by Mansfield Brewery

Mansfield Brewery

Mansfield Brewery was constructed in 1855 on land that was once a part of the North Notts Coalfield in the market town of Mansfield, England. The main beer brewed here was Mansfield Bitter, along with other popular brands including Riding Bitter, Old Bailey, and Marksman Lager. The brewery also...

 in 1985.

Gleadow and Dibb

In 1782 Thomas Ward and John Firbank built a brewery on the corner of Posterngate and Dagger Lane. Ward's granddaughters, Ann and Mary, inherited the brewery. Mary married shipbuilder Robert Gleadow in 1796, and their son, Robert Ward Gleadow, continued the brewing business. In 1846 Gleadow went into partnership with another brewer, William Thomas Dibb, to form Gleadow, Dibb and Co. Gleadow died in 1857 and was succeeded by his son, Henry Cooper Gleadow. Gleadow, Dibb and Co. became a limited company in 1885.

Anchor brewery

In 1866 Gleadow, Dibb and Co. started work on a new, purpose-built brewery in Silvester Street. This entailed demolishing the existing buildings there; fixtures and fittings from these were sold at auction in February 1867. Builders were invited to tender for the construction work in March 1867, and the company moved to the new premises in 1868. The new brewery had the capacity of fermenting 24,000 gallons of wort

Wort

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 at a time. William Thomas Dibb died in 1886 on a journey between Bridlington and Hull

Yorkshire Coast Line

The Yorkshire Coast Line is a railway line in northern England. It runs northwards from Hull Paragon to Bridlington and Scarborough calling at other intermediate stations.-History:...

; he had rushed to catch a train at Bridlington

Bridlington

Bridlington is a seaside resort, minor sea fishing port and civil parish on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It has a static population of over 33,000, which rises considerably during the tourist season...

, causing the guard to stop the train so that he could board. By the time the train arrived in Driffield

Driffield

Driffield, also known as Great Driffield, is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The civil parish is formed by the town of Driffield and the village of Little Driffield....

 he was found dead, still sitting upright in his seat. Frederic Gleadow was elected to the board of directors to replace him. The company continued to expand.

The Hull Brewery Company Limited

In 1887 Gleadow, Dibb and Co. Ltd. was wound up, and a new company, "The Hull Brewery Company Limited", was formed. The company embarked on a period of increased expansion, acquiring other brewers and bottlers, purchasing licensed houses and enlarging the Silvester Street site. By 1890 they were recorded as owning 160 licensed houses. Trade dropped off during World War I

World War I

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, but by 1919 the company was able to buy two more local breweries along with their public houses. In 1925 it acquired Sutton, Bean and Company, a Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

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 brewery. Beer was transported by barge

Barge

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 across the Humber

Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England. It is formed at Trent Falls, Faxfleet, by the confluence of the tidal River Ouse and the tidal River Trent. From here to the North Sea, it forms part of the boundary between the East Riding of Yorkshire on the north bank...

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The Second World War

World War II

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 led to another drop in trade, and many of the company's properties were damaged or destroyed during the Hull Blitz

Hull blitz

The Hull Blitz was the Nazi German strategic bombing campaign targeted on the Northern English port city of Kingston upon Hull, almost invariably referred to as Hull, during the Second World War...

. The Silvester Street brewery, however, remained intact, possibly because the German

Germany

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 bomber

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 pilots used its chimneys as a landmark

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In 1949 the company began producing "Anchor Export", a strong beer, designed to keep and travel well so that it could be taken aboard ships as part of their provisions. It was sold in bottles and cans.

The company was taken over by Northern Dairies in 1972 and the name was changed again to North Country Breweries. However, by 1982, due to the decline in consumption and the changing tastes of the beer-drinking public, the parent company decided to divest and North Country Breweries was purchased by Mansfield Brewery

Mansfield Brewery

Mansfield Brewery was constructed in 1855 on land that was once a part of the North Notts Coalfield in the market town of Mansfield, England. The main beer brewed here was Mansfield Bitter, along with other popular brands including Riding Bitter, Old Bailey, and Marksman Lager. The brewery also...

. Brewing at the Silvester Street site ceased in 1985.