Because beer-quaffing Britons loyally support some 300 breweries, 3,000 brands of suds and 70,000 local pubs, ... Britain’s No. 2 brewery (behind Allied Breweries), ...

Founded in Aston in 1858, it merged with Tetley Walker and Ind Coope in 1961 to form Allied Breweries. The brewery remained in operation until 1981. Along with Davenports, ...

It open as the Acorn in the 1910s and was a featured part of the community for decades, even surviving plans to demolish it in the 1970s by Allied Breweries, and had taken on a new life as the Pig ...