Barclay Perkins sales by pub 1901 - 1910 (in pounds) | ||||||||||
pub | 1901 | 1902 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 |
Angel | 1010 | 1343 | 1334 | 1082 | 1089 | 955 | 1009 | 1098 | 926 | 953 |
Albert House | 1195 | 1109 | 1052 | 966 | 835 | 747 | 827 | 838 | 654 | 393 |
Anchor | 1860 | 2617 | 2925 | 2606 | 2616 | 2388 | 2909 | 3071 | 2913 | 2803 |
Anchor & Hope | 1690 | 1559 | 1431 | 1341 | 1172 | 1090 | 963 | 751 | 601 | 606 |
Source: document ACC/2305/1/517 of the Courage Archive helsd at the London Metropolitan Archives | ||||||||||
I assume the figures are what the tenant paid to the brewery for beer as for later years there's a barrelage figures, too. At between a thousand and two thousand pounds a year in beer sales, it would have taken decades for a brewery to recoup an investment of 20 or 30 thousand quid. Doesn't seem to make economic sense to me.
But businesses thought in the long term back then. In 1901 it would have seemed reasonable to assume that Barclay Perkins would be around forever.
ReplyDeleteRather off-topic, but relevant to B.P.
ReplyDelete"The well-known station [Waterloo] was not intended to be a terminus, for the line was going farther east along the present route of the South Eastern & Chatham [railway], and much of the property had been secured, such insignificant items as Barclay & Perkins Brewery and Southwark Bridge being about to be taken over by the company, when the financial crisis made them pull up where they have remained."
From: Our Home Railways, W. J. Gordon, 1910, discussing the history of The London & South Western Railway.
It would be amusing to see the minute books of that period. Would that have spelt the end of the brewery or were there contingency plans? It was probably a property Compulsory Purchase Order rather than a take-over as we know it today, but perhaps the railway were going to buy Barclay and Perkins out, fully.