Programme Nine: 30.22

Greenall Whitley & Company Ltd, Wilderspool Brewery, Warrington, Cheshire.

Interviews with Dermot Dayley, Public Relations, brewery employees and researcher Neil Richardson.

This edition includes the history of Groves & Whitnall Ltd, Regent Road Brewery, and Salford that was taken over by Greenall Whitley in 1961 and closed in March 1971.

Greenall Whitley closed subsidiaries J P Simpkiss, Brierley Hill, in 1985, Shrewsbury & Wem Brewery Ltd, Wem, in 1988, Davenport’s Brewery, Bath Row, Birmingham, July 1989, and James Shipstone & Sons Ltd, Star Brewery, New Basford, in 1992.  Finally topping all this they closed their Wilderspoon Brewery and turned themselves into a pub company known as the Greenalls Group plc

The end came in 2000 when Greenalls sold its tied estate to Inn Partnership, a subsidiary of Nomura.

Music:

‘I Likes a Drop of Good Beer’

‘The British Toper’

Programme Ten:  29.45

Bass North West Ltd, Runcorn.  Interview with Director Arthur W Seddon.

Arthur Guinness Son & Company Ltd, Runcorn.  Interview with brewery representative Arthur Crick.

Music:

‘I Likes a Drop of Good Beer’

‘The British Toper’