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The brewery of James
Beevor (86 Magdalen Street) was bought out by John Patteson in 1784.
That of Charles Greeves at Pockthorpe was sold in 1793 to John Patteson.
By c1795 the brewery of Jehosophat Postle had been
acquired.
In 1797, HRH Prince William Frederick had lunch at the Pockthorpe Brewery,
in a large newly manufactured vat.
By 1800 the Gt Yarmouth North Quay Brewery of Fisher had been added to the business.
John Patteson retired in 1820 and John Staniforth Patteson took over
with partners William Steward of Gt Yarmouth and his brothers
Ambrose Harbord Steward and Timothy Steward the elder
along with his son Timothy Steward the younger.
The brewery became STEWARD, PATTESON & STEWARDS (1820 - 1831)
In 1831 the brewery of GEORGE MORSE was amalgamated with S,P&S.
The brewery became STEWARD, PATTESON & Co.
26 September 1837
this
brewery merged with that of Peter Finch.
STEWARD, PATTESON, FINCH & Co was born.
( The Brewery Plant of the St. Mary's Brewery, owned by Peter Finch, was
offered for sale by auction Thursday and Friday 7th and 8th June 1838. A
94 barrel Copper and a 24 barrel Copper were included along with an
excellent English Oak Mash Tun and Cast-Iron Underback. Also five Store
Vats of from 50 to 300 barrels each, a Gregory Refrigerator, a four
horse-power Steam Engine and many other artefacts.)
Other acquisitions:-
Samuel Paget & Son Gt Yarmouth Brewery plus 27 houses - added 1845
Bells Brewery plus 20 houses - 1866
Reepham Brewery of Bircham & Sons, plus 52 houses - 1878
Ferrier & Company, Gt Yarmouth plus 27 houses (for £16,000) - 1884
On Thursday 11th June 1857, a dinner was given to the workmen and their
wives, to celebrate the completion of a very large store, capable of
holding a thousand barrels.
Some 400 persons attended the dinner which was held in the gaily
decorated new store. Mr. Steward, the senior member of the firm,
presided. His partners, Mr. H. S. Patteson and Mr. C. Morse sat with him
and Mr. Chancellor Evans, Mr. J. B. Morgan, Mr. Arthur Steward, Mrs.
Steward, Mrs. Patteson sen., Mrs. H. S. Patteson and several of the
younger branches of the Steward family and a few personal friends
attended.
After the visitors had retired, pipes and tobacco were introduced for
the men and dancing commenced to the excellent music of Fitzgerald's
band......
On Thursday 12th December 1867, William Clabburn, a grainsman, attempted
to separate yardsmen John Eggett and John Taylor who had started
fighting. Clabburn fell into a container of boiling water having been
pushed aside by Taylor. The container was used for scalding empty
barrels.
Clabburn was taken to the hospital where he gave a deposition relating
to the events. He confirmed that Taylor was still holding him when he
fell into the boiling water and who assisted in getting him out. He had
no ill-feeling to Mr. Taylor. Clabburn was not expected to recover.
Registered as a limited company July 1895,
the brewery became STEWARD & PATTESON Ltd.
The same year the Swaffham Brewery of Morse & Woods, with 51 houses was
purchased.
More purchases :-
William Bolding's Weybourne Brewery - 1897
Eye Brewery, plus 20 houses - 1914 (Purchased from Adnams & Co ,
Southwold)
Cooper Brown, Crown Brewery, East Dereham - 1923
Bagges Brewery of Kings Lynn along with 74 houses - August 1929
Everards Brewery plus 15 houses - 1929
Soames Brewery of Spalding - 1949
Merged with East Anglian Breweries of Ely & Huntingdon 1956
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