London Breweries in 1900

One of the sights of 1900 London was some great brewery like that of Barclay, Perkins and Co., Park Street, Southwark, an historic enterprise, famous in the eighteenth century as having belonged to Thrale, for whom Dr. Johnson acted as executor.

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In 1900 the premises were vast; the water, delightfully cool, was supplied from an artesian well as deep as St. Paul's is high; the stores of malt were enormous; while steam-power performed, almost without human intervention, the bulk of the work.

Whitbread's, in Chiswell Street; Finsbury, was the oldest Metropolitan brewery; dating back two and a half centuries; and was renowned for the production of porter (their speciality), stout and ale.

Charrington's Brewery was a prominent object in the Mile End Road, and was an immense concern, well worth a visit.

Huggins and Co., Ltd., Broad Street, Golden Square, covered a large area of ground in the middle of an overcrowded and squalid district.

The premises of Meux and Co., Ltd., formerly in Liquorpond Street, Gray's Inn Lane, were conspicuous at the corner of New Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road.

The Company spent large sums in boring at great depth on the spot for water, but so far without satisfactory result.

Watney, Combe, Reid and Co., Ltd. (the Stag Brewery, Pimlico), were famous for their stout and porter.

Truman, Hanbury, Buxton and Co., Ltd., an old and well-known firm, were in Brick Lane, E.

There were several other breweries of minor importance, such as the City of London Brewery Co., Ltd., Upper Thames Street, between Cannon Street station and London Bridge; the Lion Brewery, Belvedere Road, on the Surrey side, near the Hungerford foot-bridge from Charing Cross, a handsome building remarkable for a large stone lion on its summit, etc.

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