4 openings, 3 closures, net change +1.
By the end of 1983, there were 18 commercial breweries operating in London, including nine brewpubs. 4 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:
- Battersea Brewery (Prince of Wales, Conway brewpubs) SW11, Wandsworth, brewpub NEW!
- Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, Croydon, brewpub
- Chudley & Co W9, Westminster
- Ferret and Firkin (Bruce’s Brewery) SW10, Kensington & Chelsea, brewpub NEW!
- Fox and Firkin (Bruce’s Brewery) SE13, Lewisham, brewpub
- Frog and Firkin (Bruce’s Brewery) W11, Kensington & Chelsea, brewpub
- Fuller, Smith & Turner W4, Hounslow
- Godson Freeman & Wilmot E3, Tower Hamlets
- Goose and Firkin (Bruce’s Brewery) SE1, Southwark, brewpub
- Guinness Park Royal (Guinness M) NW10, Ealing
- Ind Coope (Allied Lyons N) RM1, Havering
- Market Brewery (Market Porter, Beach’s Ales) SE1, Southwark, brewpub
- McDonnell’s (Queen Victoria) SE18, Greenwich, brewpub NEW!
- Orange (Clifton Inns / Watney / Grand Metropolitan N) SW1, Westminster, brewpub NEW!
- Pitfield Brewery N1, Hackney
- Truman Hanbury & Buxton (Watney Mann Truman / Grand Metropolitan N) E1, Tower Hamlets
- Watney Mann Truman (Grand Metropolitan N) SW14, Richmond upon Thames
- Young & Co’s Brewery SW18, Wandsworth
Closed this year
- Bridge Brewery (formerly Tower Brewery) SE1, Southwark
- Union Brewery (B&W) UB3, Hillingdon
- Windsor Castle N2, Barnet, brewpub
Other changes
- Tower Brewery renamed Bridge Brewery, though closes shortly afterwards.
For definitions of a London brewery, see the current London breweries page.
⇦ 1982 | London breweries year by year | 1984 ⇨
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