Taylor Walker & Co buys the brewery and estate
including 31 tied houses and off licenses

Last brew of 62 barrels of Small Best Bitter Ale
made by David H Ward on 19 February

David H.Ward buys back business (delivery depot
and pubs) for £75,000.

1960
1960

Company now titled Wards (Foxearth) Limited
Brewery cleared to allow space for storage and

George Ward
Charlotte Ward
David Ward

bottling
Demolition of main brew house tower and other

James Cutmore
Charles Thomson

out-buildings
Mineral Water business is closed down

Junius Charles Ritchie
W H A Barnes

1962
1963

Thomas Fuller (serving pupilage from Fuller’s Brewery,
Bedford)

Wards (Foxearth) Limited sold to Charrington
United Breweries. D.H. Ward continues as
manager

Harold Bailey (serving pupillage from Bailey & Tebbuts,
Panton Brewery, Cambridge)

Village Club (supported by Wards) closes due to
lack of funds

Martin Bailey (serving pupillage from Bailey & Tebbuts,
Panton Brewery, Cambridge
Bernard Ward (assistant brewer)

1980
1982

David H. Ward retires
Harold Ewart Ward dies aged 89

Charles Maxim
Fred Carter

1988
1989

Brewery site is sold for £250,000
Final demolition of brewery site except engine

Mr Carpenter
Mr Parmenter

Mr Richards
Harold Ward

house and office
Site redeveloped for residential use and now

Mr Trethowan
Martin Falwasser

known as The Chase
David H. Ward dies aged

J.A. (Ned) Middleton
David H Ward

1997
2003

Kendrick Foster (great nephew of John Foster and
last of Foster line) dies at Lustleigh, Devon

Brewing of a Foxearth beer by Nethergate
Brewery, Clare, Suffolk, based on one of the
original recipes used by Ward & Sons (circa 1910)
Beer named Foxearth 1910

Lion Beerhouse
The Brewery House

The Cottage (Foxearth Lodge)
Lower Hall

Carbonell’s Farm
Brick cottages opposite the school in Foxearth