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"A necessity if you're a beer geek travelling to London town" - Beer Advocate
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"Very authoritative" - Tim Webb.
"One of the top beer writers in the UK" - Mark Dredge.
"A beer guru" - Popbitch.
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Tolly Cobbold Walthamstow (Tolly Cobbold)

Pre-1972 Tolly Cobbold label listing its location as “Ipswich and London”.

Closed breweryEssex Brewery, St James Street E17 7FE (Waltham Forest)First sold beer: 1859Ceased brewing: 1971

Founded as a steam-powered brewery by William Hawes, this operation was first known simply as the Walthamstow Brewery, and located on the north side of St James Street (then […]

London breweries 1971

1971 vintage Evening Standard Pub of the Year plaque still in situ in Fulham. Pic: Edwardx, Wikipedia Creative Commons.

By the end of 1971, there were 11 commercial breweries operating in London, none of them brewpubs. 6 were part of national groups (N), one part of a multinational (M). These breweries were:

Charrington Brewery […]