London breweries 1972

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:

1. Charrington Brewery (Bass Charrington N) E1, Tower Hamlets
2. Courage Brewery N SE1, Southwark
3. Fuller, Smith & Turner W4, Hounslow
4. Guinness Park Royal (Guinness M) NW10, Ealing
5. Ind Coope (Allied Breweries N) RM1, Havering
6. Mann Crossman & Paulin (Watney Mann / Grand Metropolitan N) E1, Tower Hamlets
7. Truman Hanbury & Buxton (Grand Metropolitan N) E1, Tower Hamlets
8. Watney Mann (Grand Metropolitan N) SW14, Richmond upon Thames
9. Whitbread Brewery N EC1, City of London, Islington
10. 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.

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