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LIST BREWERIES Paul Skelton

 

Poulter's Castle Brewery

 

Biggin Street & Russell Street

 

Pigot's directory of 1828-9 makes mention of a Poulter and Greenwood of Charlton.

Listed in Pigot's directory of 1832 and 1839 as owned by James Poulter of Biggin Street.

Bagshaw's Directory of 1847 also mentions James Poulter of Biggin Street and also Russell Street.

 

Kentish Gazette, 24 August 1847.

DEATH.

Greenwood:— August 17, in King-street, Borough, London, Mr. Edward Greenwood, aged 43 formerly of Dover, brewer.

 

Later became part of Leney's Brewery.

In 1910 A.C. Leney started mineral water production; moving to a new factory in Russell Street in 1912. These premises had been Poulter's Castle Brewery which Leneys had purchased in 1884. Leney's trade-mark for their mineral waters was the Pharos in Dover Castle; reputedly the first lighthouse in England. Leney supplied millions of bottles of ginger beer to the Forces in France during the Great War.

Leneys Table Waters Ltd was registered on March 30, 1927 with a capital of £8,000 to 'take over the business of mineral water manufacturers and distributors carried on at Dover and elsewhere in Kent by A. Leney & Co Ltd, (Brewers)'. The company traded until 1956, when it went into liquidation.

 

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