BREWERY HISTORY, PUB & BREWERY NEWS FROM CITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT
BREWERY HISTORY, PUB & BREWERY NEWS FROM CITY OF BRADFORD METROPOLITAN DISTRICT
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Hammonds Untied Breweries last four purchases as an independent company took place
in 1959. R. F. Case & Co; Ltd; of Barrow-in-Furness, was acquired in January, they
owned sixty pubs. April saw the Scottish firms John Aitchison & Co; Ltd; of Edinburgh
(sixty-eight houses) and their subsidiary McLennan & Urqhart Ltd; of nearby Dalkeith
(six houses) join the group. G. S. Heath Ltd; also of Barrow-in-Furness, came into
the fold during December, with about twelve inns and a similar number of off-licences.
Last came Westoe Breweries Ltd; based in South Shields, with eighty-three outlets.
Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence’s (Hammonds United Breweries Chairman and Joint Managing
Director) insurance company connections had brought him into contact with one of
the Case family, an underwriter with Lloyds. They approached Hammonds with an offer
to sell their holding in their brewery and the Bradford Company took the option up.
The Barrow firm also had an interest in G. S. Heath, of the same town and that business
later joined the combine. Brewing continued at the larger company’s premises under
Geoffrey Case’s control until 1972.
A cast metal Case Brewery sign on display at Brown Cow, Dalton in Furness