brewery
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located in the
Monken Hadley
Monken Hadley is an area in the London Borough of Barnet, at the northern edge of Greater London, England, lying some north north-west of Charing Cross. Anciently a country village near Chipping Barnet in Middlesex, and from 1889 to 1965 in Her ...
neighborhood of
London
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. It stood for many years just north of
High Barnet
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on Hadley Green.
History
Though there is a belief that Hadley Brewery started around 1700, the operation probably started in the later part of the 18th century. Robert and William Thorp were listed as brewers in Hadley in Pigot's Directory (1825). The Brewery was run by a Mr Salisbury in the 1850s, who sold it to W. T. Healey early in 1861, who in turn had the whole reconstructed "at great expence." James Harris Brown purchased the brewery in 1887, and was successful enough to rebuild the whole in 1911, creating the structure that existed into living memory. Shortly before James Harris died the works became a
private
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limited company
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(Harris Browne Ltd). During the 1930s the brewery owned the Star Tavern (High Barnet), the Victoria (
Highgate
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), and the Bridge House (
Potters Bar
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, and by 1937 they were brewing approximately 1500 barrels of
beer
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at a cost £12/6s, importing
hops
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from
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. At this time there were approximately fifty employees.
Brewing continued at the location until 1938 when the company was sold to Fremlins. Afterwards, the brewery was only used for storage and
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. There was a serious
fire
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in 1969 and although much of the brewery was rebuilt, the 18th century buildings did not survive. In 1967 Fremlins was bought out by Whitbread, who closed Hadley Brewery completely, offering the 28 employees work at their new works in
Luton
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. The buildings remained empty until 1978 when the last of the buildings were demolished.
Products
Beers brewed included Hadley
Stout
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, Hadley Special Pale
Ale
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, Dinner Ale,
ginger beer
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, and Nourishing Stout. Twenty to thirty barrels of
barley wine
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(Old English Ale) were made every year and bottled by hand.