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London breweries 1985

3 revivals and openings, 1 closure, net change +2.

By the end of 1985, there were 25 commercial breweries operating in London, including 16 brewpubs. 7 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:

Barking Brewery IG11, Barking & Dagenham NEW! Battersea Brewery (Prince of […]

London breweries 1984

6 openings, 2 closures and suspensions, net change +4.

By the end of 1984, there were 23 commercial breweries operating in London, including 14 brewpubs. 7 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 Brixton […]

Scanlon’s Fine Ales

Scanlon’s Fine Ales, West Drayton UB7 (London)

Closed brewery

8D Rainbow Industrial Estate, Trout Road, Yiewsley, West Drayton UB7 7XT (Hillingdon)First sold beer: 8 May 1996Ceased brewing: June 1997

Teacher and keen homebrewer Jerry Scanlon was encouraged to brew professionally when his IPA began winning competition prizes. His first commercial beer, […]

Bertie Belcher’s Brewery Co (Hedgehog and Hogshead)

Bertie Belcher’s Sutton Brewery, Sutton SM1 (London)

Brewpubs no longer brewing

Hedgehog and Hogshead Highbury259 Upper Street N1 1RU (Islington)First sold beer: September 1995Ceased brewing: Early 1998

Hedgehog and Hogshead Sutton2 High Street, Sutton SM1 1HN (Sutton)First sold beer: September 1995Ceased brewing: Early 1998

Three years after selling his pioneering […]

Barking Brewery

Barking Brewery, Barking IG11 (London)

Closed brewery

6 Riverside Works, Hertford Road, Barking IG11 8BB (Barking & Dagenham)First sold beer: August 1985Ceased brewing: Spring 1986

A rare brewery in London’s eastern fringes, this was founded in a Barking industrial unit by David Jones. It turned out to be a short-lived project, […]

Tooley Street Brewery

Tooley Street Brewery, London SE1

Closed brewery

52 Tooley Street SE1 2QN (Southwark)First sold beer: 1984Ceased brewing: 1985

An early example of a Southwark railway arch brewery, Tooley Street was established to supply beer to the Dickens Inn pub, across the river Thames at St Katherine’s Dock.

The pub, which […]

London breweries 1983

4 openings, 3 closures, net change +1.

By the end of 1983, there were 19 commercial breweries operating in London, including 10 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 […]

London breweries 1982

3 openings, 2 closures, net change +1.

By the end of 1982, there were 18 commercial breweries operating in London, including seven brewpubs. 3 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:

Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, Croydon, brewpub Chudley & Co W9, Westminster Fox and […]

London breweries 1981

6 openings, 1 closure, net change +5.

By the end of 1981, there were 17 commercial breweries operating in London, including eight brewpubs. 3 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:

Burkes’s Brewery (Lion) CR0, Croydon, brewpub NEW! Chudley & Co W9, Westminster NEW! […]

Conway brewpubs

Brixton Brewery (1980s), London SW9

Closed brewpubs

Battersea BreweryPrince of Wales, 339 Battersea Park Road SW11 4LS (Wandsworth)First sold beer: August 1983Ceased brewing: 1989

Brixton BreweryThe Warrior, 242 Coldharbour Lane SW9 8SE (Lambeth)First sold beer: 1984Ceased brewing: 1989

Note: both these breweries were entirely unrelated to the current Battersea Brewery […]