No openings, 1 closure, net change -1.
By the end of 1972, there were 10 commercial breweries operating in London, none of them brewpubs. 7 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:
- Charrington Brewery (Bass Charrington N) E1, Tower Hamlets
- Courage Brewery N SE1, Southwark
- Fuller, Smith & Turner W4, Hounslow
- Guinness Park Royal (Guinness M) NW10, Ealing
- Ind Coope (Allied Breweries N) RM1, Havering
- Mann Crossman & Paulin (Watney Mann / Grand Metropolitan N) E1, Tower Hamlets
- Truman Hanbury & Buxton (Grand Metropolitan N) E1, Tower Hamlets
- Watney Mann (Grand Metropolitan N) SW14, Richmond upon Thames
- Whitbread Brewery N EC1, City of London, Islington
- Young & Co’s Brewery SW18, Wandsworth
Closed this year
- Tolly Cobbold Walthamstow (Tolly Cobbold) E17, Waltham Forest
Other changes
- Watney Mann, including its Mann Crossman & Paulin subsidiary, acquired by Grand Metropolitan, which alread owns Truman.
For definitions of a London brewery, see the current London breweries page.
⇦ 1971 | London breweries year by year | 1973 ⇨
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