SALE OF TENTERDEN BREWERY. February 1922.
By instructions of Messrs. O. Edwards & Sons, brewers and wine and
spirit merchants, the freehold
properties comprising the Tenterden Brewery, together with nine freehold
fully-licensed houses and one
freehold beerhouse, were offered for sale by Messrs. Wickenden & Sons
(Tunbridge Wells) in conjunction
with Messrs. Knight, Frank & Rutley, at the Elwick Auction Rooms,
Ashford, on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Chas.
S. Wickenden conducted the sale and referred to the difficulty in
securing licensed houses and the fact that
free properties are becoming scarce. He also referred to the recent
Lamberhurst sale, and said that by the
re-sale a very substantial profit had been effected. One heard of a
slight falling off here and there in trade,
but those best qualified to judge asserted that it was quite temporary
and that those in business had
nothing to fear. With the removal of the vexatious restrictions and
modifications of the licensing laws and
duties there was every reason for continued confidence. The present firm
had owned the property for the
past fifty years and were selling owing to a dissolution of partnership.
The initial bid was £15,000, and the properties were knocked down at
£28,700 to Mr. E. A. Baker, The
Chantreys, Horsham, Sussex, and Mr. Percy Terrill, The Lodge, Vale-road,
St. Leonard's.
The brewery, which was established in 1745, was purchased by the late
Mr. Obadiah Edwards in 1872 and
conducted by him until his death in 1905, since which period the
business has been carried on by his three
sons. The houses, which are situated within a radius of about 12 miles
of the brewery, are as under, and the
total sales for beers, wines, spirits and minerals for the year ended
March, 1921, are stated to be £23,604:— The "Vine," Tenterden; "Black Horse," Tenterden;" "Bull Inn," Rolverden; "Castletons Oak," Biddenden;
"Crown Inn," Cranbrook; "William the Conqueror," Rye Harbour; "King’s
Head," Shadoxhurst; "Rose and
Crown," Old Romney; "British Volunteers," Ashford, and the "New Inn," Tenterden (beerhouse.)
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