Ashton Gate Brewery Co
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Ashton Gate Brewery Co Ltd (also known for a time as Hardwick and Co Ltd) was a brewing company based in Bristol, UK. It was one of the first 1000 companies registered in England and Wales.
History
Thomas Baynton had operated a business on North Street[1] in Ashton Gate under the name Ashton Gate Brewery.[2] The company was established in 1865 in order to acquire the business after Baynton's death.[3] It was one of the first 1000 companies registered with Companies House.[4]
The company changed its name to Hardwick and Co in 1868, reverting to Ashton Gate Brewery Co in 1883,[3] and was listed in Kelly's Directory.[1][5] In its last year of independent operation (to 1931), an ordinary dividend of 13 per cent was paid.[6]
The company was acquired by Bristol Brewery Georges & Co in either 1931[3] or 1932.[7]
Management
One former managing director was H. R. Harvey, whose son William Rhys Harvey became a director of Bristol Brewery Georges & Co.[8]
Ashton Gate Brewery
The brewery operated at Ashton Gate in Bristol.[3] Additions to the brewery were made in 1905 by brewers' engineers George Adlam,[9] being described architecturally by Foyle in his book Bristol (2004) as "brick and Ham stone with blind lunettes beneath shaped gables."[10] The brewery produced porter and strong beer.[2]