Ridley's Brewery

Ridley's Brewery
Industry Alcoholic beverage
Founded 1842
Founder Thomas Dixon Ridley
Defunct 2005
Products Beer
Owner Greene King

Ridley's Brewery is a defunct brewing company. It was founded in 1842, and was located in Hartford End, Essex. In August 2002 the company bought out the Tolly Cobbold brewery. Then, in 2005 Ridley's was bought by Greene King and dismantled. The executive chairman of Greene King is Nicholas Ridley, the great-great-grandson of Thomas Dixon Ridley, the founder of Ridley's.

The independent company

Ridley's was officially T. D. Ridley & Sons Ltd. It started as a water mill at Hartford End and from that it developed a flour milling business in Chelmsford, two maltings, also in Chelmsford, and the brewery which stayed at Hartford End.[1] In the early 1970s, Ridley's is recorded as having "just over 60" tied houses, mostly in central and north-west Essex.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Frank Baillie. The Beer Drinker's Companion (1973 ed.). David & Charles, Newton Abbot. pp. 210–211. ISBN 0-7153-6201-1.
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