Catalogue description John Rowell and Son Ltd, Gateshead, Brewers

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Details of DS.RWL
Reference: DS.RWL
Title: John Rowell and Son Ltd, Gateshead, Brewers
Description:

Company Records
Date: 1894-1960
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

John Rowell and Sons Ltd, 1894-1960
Physical description: 12 SERIES
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accessions 1463 (part), 2319 (part), 2336 (part) and 2556 (part)
Administrative / biographical background:

Established in the 1840s and incorporated in 1894. In 1896 the firm took over Wm Turnbull & Co of South Shields, brewers, J M Bruce, wine and spirit merchants and Gilpin & Co, bottlers, wine merchants and mineral water bottlers. In 1901 the pubs of Matthew Taylor & Co were acquired when that firm stopped brewing, and in 1912 Rowell's gained a controlling interest in the Gateshead Breweries Corporation.

 

John Rowell and Son Ltd were taken over by Newcastle Breweries in 1959 and the firm was wound up in 1960.
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