Sunny Side (now Magnolia House)
EDME Ltd; Fison’s; Mackeson; Thompson’s; Pidcocks
(Nottingham); R & W Paul Ipswich; Ipswich Malting
Company; Harrington’s of Ware in Hertfordshire.
Latterly it came from Gilstrap, Earl and Company of
Barrels of beer brewed in 1955 and 1956 (last two years as
an independent brewery)
Newark and James Hole and Company’s brewery
also in Newark. Oat malt was supplied by Brooks &
1955 ........................................................................................5,307
1956 ........................................................................................4,650
Son. Early suppliers of malt included Alf Thompson
at Borley; William (and then Frederick) Ince at Mill
Lane, Foxearth and John Butcher at Bulmer.
Hop merchants (mostly based in Kent and Sussex)
Number of bottles produced during two years as an
independent brewery
Hops
included: Arthur Morris; E Clemens Horst (London);
Henry Barrett; Wood, Fielding and Horbury; Tabrum
1955.......................................................................................33,792
1956.......................................................................................31,044
& Son; Baker White & Morgan; Arthur Walton;
Young and Company; Preston Son & Elliot; Webb &
Minerals manufactured in 1956
Son. Glaziers, Sussex.
Wandsworth Brewery supplied various yeast
Minerals - dozen bottles half pints and splits -.......... 23,229
Magnums - dozen bottles ..................................................4,571
Yeast
including: 30 XX, No 3 and No 7 The British Pure
Yeast Co supplied their eponymous brand - British
Siphons...................................................................................1,173
Cordials .................................................................................7,381
Pure Yeast. Cannon’s Brewery supplied 67 KK and
77 KK plus many others including Shipton Yeast Co
who marketed Shipton‘s Slow Yeast and Marston‘s
who marketed Birmingham Yeast and Marston‘s
The Ward family and their children - from 1814
Samuel and Martha -
George, Haviot, Amelia (died
by drowning, aged 3) Mary,
Yeast. Greene King also supplied yeast immediately
after the 1914-1918 War.
Samuel,
Amelia, David, George Ward
Sugar
Various sugars were supplied by: Clark & Son
(caramel, black syrup) Boake Roberts (Caramel,
George and Charlotte -
Miller, adopted by Charlotte
in 1878
inverted glucose, corpulose) Kendall & Son (New
Copper Sugar and Invert Laevuline); Paisley Sugar
David Ward and Louisa -
Gertrude, Winifred, Madge,
Harold and George Bernard
Company (caramelised diastase syrup, septose, raw
sugar.) Gonville & Jarvis (caramel, raw sugar)
Gartons (invert glucose and diastase syrup) Buttsons
(caramel) J.M Collett & Co (Special Stout Sugar,
Harold and Mary -
David H Ward and Marie -
Barbara, David, Elizabeth
Louise
malt extract) Sugar & Malt Products Ltd (raw and
cooked sugars) Barrett, Tagant and Gotts (invert
Louise and Nicholas -
Julia, Candida and Henry
sugar)
Syrups and essence suppliers (for soft drinks) included:
Suppliers
Duckworth’s of Lancashire; Stevens & Howell; Bush;
Barnett & Foster.
Malt
After the mid-1880s malt was supplied by various
firms including varieties from: R & A Allen;
Branwhite’s at Long Melford; Alfred Gough of
Saffron Walden; I. Gough of Bury St Edmunds;
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