Combe, Delafield and Co
Brewery, of Castle Street, Longacre, London
From 1739 the Gyfford family operated the Wood Yard Brewery in Castle Street (later Shelton Street) near Long Acre
1787 The brewery, the fifth or sixth largest of London's porter breweries, was bought by Combe, Shum and Delafield. The brewery seems to have largely been run by two of the partners, Joseph Delafield, one of Samuel Whitbread's brewers, and William Packer, long employed at the Wood Yard brewery.
In the next thirty years the brewery prospered, although less spectacularly than those of Barclay Perkin, Whitbread, Truman, and Meux-Reid.[1]
1799 George Shum, Harvey Christian Combe, Joseph Delafield and William Packer, all of Castle Street, Long Acre, bought the business of Thomas Newnham of Bedford Row, porter brewer.
1799 Also bought the business of William Cator, brewer and owner of public houses
1809 Harvey Christian Combe, Joseph Delafield, George Shum, Harvey Combe and William Packer of Castle Street, brewers, bought the brewery of Edward Pickard, Nathaniel Stonard, Alexander Maitland, Ebenezer Fuller Maitland and Thomas Green of St John, Wapping, Middlesex
1810-8 Purchase by Combe, Delafield and Co of Hollingsworth and Co, carried on at the Southwark Public Subscription Brewery
1818 Harvey Combe and Joseph Delafield the younger bought the bankrupt business of Dickinson and Co of St John Street, Clerkenwell, brewers
1852 Joseph Bonsor became a partner
By 1862 had become Combe, Delafield and Co
1866 'A cast-iron three throw shaft, employed for driving pumps, has been in regular use at Messrs Combe, Delafield, and Co.'s brewery, Long-acre, for upwards of eighty years.'[2]
1888 Company incorporated; Cosmo Orme Bonsor became a director
1890 Combe and Company Ltd was merged with other brewers to form Watney, Combe, Reid and Co[3]
See Also
Sources of Information
- National Archives [2]