Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Ringwood Brewery

From Graces Guide
1914. Albion Motor Co Model A14. For Ringwood Brewery. Exhibit at the National Motor Museum.

1978 Foundation of Ringwood Brewery by Peter Austin.

1979 Introduced the much stronger Old Thumper ale. Moved to Christchurch Road site, the location of the long lost Tunks' Brewery which closed in 1821

1994 Expansion to double output

1997 The Hogshead pubs group asked Ringwood to come up with a summer ale and the result was called Boondoggle an American word which roughly translates into English as not working too hard!

2007 David Welsh retired after nearly 30 years at the brewery; business acquired by Marstons Brewery.

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