Crosswell's Brewery

Walter Showell (born 1833) started his brewery company in the mid-19th century. In 1866 he built a brewery over the Crosswell springs in Oldbury.^[1] The brewery was successful, claiming its use of pure water direct from the springs helped its beer, and by the late 1880s the company was making profits of over £25,000 per year.

The company was sold in 1914 to Allsopp & Sons of Burton-upon-Trent, who supplied its ales to pubs tied to the Showell company.^[2] The brewery was operated by Ind Coope and Wolverhampton & Dudley Brewery until 2006, the buildings then being sold for flats; they were however attacked by arsonists in 2009.^[3]

The brewery had an association football club, Crosswell's Brewery F.C., which played first-class football in the late 1880s.