By 1928, there were only 4 towns in Scotland with more than one brewery: Edinburgh, Alloa, Glasgow and Dundee. Though in Dundee both breweries were owned by the same firm, Ballingall. The Scottish brewing industry was becoming increasingly concentrated in Edinburgh and, to a lesser degree, Alloa. Of the 41 breweries in the table, 19 were in Edinburgh and 6 in Alloa. And, with the exception of Tennent in Glasgow and Aitken in Falkirk, most of the breweries outside the two main centres were pretty small.
What should I do first, map or table? Let's go with map, shall we? It shows clearly the concentration of breweries in the central belt between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
View Scottisn breweries in 1928 in a larger map
Next there's the table. A word of warning, there are a couple of breweries missing. William Murray's second brewery in Duddingston, for example, the North British Brewery. Also Robert Younger's brewery in Duddingston.
| Scottish breweries in 1928 | ||
| Devanha Brewery Co. Ltd. | Aberdeen. | |
| Archibald Arrol & Sons Ltd. | Alloa Brewery | Alloa. |
| Blair & Co. (Alloa) Ltd. | Town head Brewery | Alloa. |
| Maclay & Co. Ltd. | Thistle Bry. | Alloa. |
| Geo. Younger & Son Ltd. | Meadow & Candleriggs Breweries | Alloa. |
| Jas. Calder & Co.(Brewers) Ltd. | Shore Brewery | Alloa. |
| Robt. Knox | Forth Brewery | Cambus, Alloa. |
| A. & J. Davidson | Coldstream. | |
| McLennan & Urquhart Ltd. | The Brewery | Dalkeith. |
| G. & J. Maclachlan Ltd. | Castle Brewery | Duddingston, Edinburgh. |
| Wm. Murray & Co. Ltd. | Craigmillar Brewery | Duddingston, Edinburgh. |
| T. Y. Paterson & Co. Ltd. | Pentland Brewery | Duddingston, Edinburgh. |
| Robt. Deuchar Ltd. | Duddingston Brewery | Duddingston, Edinburgh. |
| Drybrough & Co. Ltd. | Duddingston | Duddingston, Edinburgh. |
| Ballingall & Son Ltd. | Park and Pleasance Breweries | Dundee. |
| Robt. Younger Ltd. | St. Anns' Brewery | Edinburgh |
| John Aitchison & Co. Ltd. | Holyrood Road | Edinburgh. |
| T. & J. Bernard Ltd. | Edinburgh Brewery | Edinburgh. |
| A. Campbell, Hope, & King Ltd. | Argyle Brewery | Edinburgh. |
| Edinburgh United Breweries Ltd. | Bell's Breweries | Edinburgh. |
| John Jeffrey & Co. | Heriot & Roseburn Breweries | Edinburgh. |
| Geo. Mackay & Co. | St. Leonard's Brewery | Edinburgh. |
| Wm. McEwan & Co. Ltd. | Fountain Brewery | Edinburgh. |
| Steel, Coulson, & Co. Ltd. | Croft-an-Righ Brewery | Edinburgh. |
| C. Vaux & Sons Ltd. | Caledonian Brewery | Edinburgh. |
| Wm. Younger & Co. Ltd. | Abbey & Holyrood Breweries | Edinburgh. |
| Gordon & Blair (1923) Ltd. | Craigwell Brewery | Edinburgh; |
| J. & J. Morison | Commercial Brewery,Canongate, | Edinburgh. |
| Thos. Usher & Son Ltd. | Park Bry. | St. Leonards, Edinburgh. |
| Jas. Aitken & Co. (Falkirk) Ltd. | The Brewery | Falkirk. |
| John Young & Go. Ltd. | Ladywell Brewery | Fisherrow, Edinburgh. |
| Steel, Coulson, & Co. Ltd. | Greenhead Brewery | Glasgow |
| Hugh Baird & Co. | Great Canal Bry. | Glasgow. |
| J. & R. Tennent Ltd. | Wellpark Bry. | Glasgow. |
| M. Binnie | The Brewery | Haddington. |
| Wm. Whitelaw & Son | Fisherrow Bry. | Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. |
| South Western Brewery Co. | Newton Stewart. | |
| Gordon & Blair (1923) Ltd. | Home Brewery | Parkhead, Glasgow. |
| J. Wright & Co. | 18 North Methven Street | Perth. |
| Heslop & Son | Errol Street | Peterhead. |
| John Fowler & Co. Ltd. | Prestonpans, near Edinburgh. | |
| Source: | ||
| "Brewers' Almanck 1928" | ||
Great. No need for much in the way of words. Not that I've any great shortage of them. But, you know, I'm a lazy git.
Next I'll be taking a closer look at the breweries in Duddingston.
* I've just noticed that I did, back in October last year. Oh well, I've added the table of breweries this time. Justification enough for repeating the map.
Ron,
ReplyDeleteDo you have any information about when Wm Whitelaw's Fisherrow Brewery closed.
I thought it was around 1963, which is why I was surprised it wasn't in your previous post of 1950/60 closures. There are pictures of the brewery in the 1950's in a nearby pub (Stagg's).
I think Campbell's bought the pubs after the war.
By the way, Whitelaw's was in Fisherrow not Musselburgh. Though it's a bit like saying it's in Leith rather than Edinburgh...
According to "A Century Of British Brewers" William Whitelaw closed in 1941.
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