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Greene King plaque on the side of a pub in Sudbury, Suffolk. The brewery was founded by Benjamin Greene in Bury St. Edmunds in 1799. [3] In Richard Wilson's biographical analysis of the Greene family, he credits various family members for being able to achieve distinction in the worlds of business and banking, literature (Graham Greene, for example) and broadcasting in the nineteenth and ...
Benjamin Greene (5 April 1780 – 26 November 1860) was an English businessman, newspaper owner and the founder of Greene King, one of the United Kingdom's largest brewing businesses. [1] He later became the owner of multiple plantations in the British West Indies and supported slavery.
Belhaven Brewery is a brewery based in Belhaven, Scotland. The brewery dates from 1719, at least; by 2005 it had become the largest and oldest surviving independent brewery in Scotland. In November 2005, the Suffolk based brewery Greene King completed a £187 million takeover of the company. The brewery complex is designated Category A listed. [1]
Donnington Brewery Elgoods: Elgoods Everards: Everards Felinfoel: Felinfoel Frederic Robinson, Stockport: Frederic Robinson Fuller's, London Fuller, Smith & Turner Gale's: Gale's " Greene King, Bury St Edmunds: Greene King Greene King Morland: Morland Brewery|Morland Morland" Saxby's" Field's: Field & Sons " Wantage, Wantage: Wantage Brewery ...
Ruddles Brewery (G. Ruddle & Co) was a brewery in Rutland, England. The brand is now owned by Greene King who still brew beers under the Ruddles name in Suffolk, although the current recipes are not those used at the original brewery. [1] The brewery, established in 1858 in Langham, Rutland, was bought by George Ruddle in 1912. [2]
The Old Speckled Hen logo. Old Speckled Hen is a bitter beer originally made by the Morland Brewery, but now brewed by Greene King Brewery.Old Speckled Hen was first brewed in 1979 in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire in England, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory there on 30 November 1979.
Just outside the town, on the site of RAF Bury St Edmunds, is Bartrums Brewery, originally based in Thurston, and to the north is the Brewshed brewery, located in Ingham. The Greene King pub The Nutshell is situated in the centre of the town, and is one of several that claim to be Britain's smallest public house. [88]
Edward Greene (17 August 1815 – 5 April 1891) was an English brewer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1865 and 1891. Greene was the son of Benjamin Greene , a West Indies Slave owner , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] who established the Greene King brewery in Bury St Edmunds in 1799. [ 3 ]