Crosswells Brewery was a brewery in
Oldbury, then in
Worcestershire
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, operational from the mid-19th century until 1914.
History
Walter Showell (born 1833) started his brewery company in the mid-19th century. In 1866 he built a brewery over the Crosswell springs in Oldbury. The brewery was successful, claiming its use of pure water direct from the springs helped its beer, and by the late 1880s the company was making profits of over £25,000 per year.
The company was sold in 1914 to
Allsopp & Sons of
Burton-upon-Trent
Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 7 ...
, who supplied its ales to pubs tied to the Showell company. The brewery was operated by
Ind Coope
Allied Breweries was the result of a 1961 merger between Ind Coope (of Burton), Ansells (of Birmingham), and Tetley Walker (of Leeds).
In 1978, Allied Breweries merged with the food and catering group J. Lyons and Co to form Allied Lyons. The brew ...
and
Wolverhampton & Dudley Brewery until 2006, the buildings then being sold for flats; they were however attacked by arsonists in 2009.
Sport
The brewery had an
association football
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club,
Crosswell's Brewery F.C., which played first-class football in the late 1880s.
References
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Defunct breweries
Beer and brewery stubs