Comments on: Two Lost Breweries Of Whitechapel

By: Nick Wenham

Nick Wenham — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:07:10 +0000

My father, John Albert Leonard (Len) Wenham was the manager there, up until he retired around 1979.

By: Sheila Ainsworth

Sheila Ainsworth — Sun, 04 May 2025 08:35:57 +0000

Charringtons brewery actually in Mile End Road Stepney Green. E1. Not Mile End. I lived in Cephas avenue where the brewery loading bays were and my address was Stepney Green E.1

By: Alan Noakes

Alan Noakes — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:53:43 +0000

Hi anybody remember me . My brother worked with me at Whitechapel and my son Tony worked there to . Happy days . 77 years young now .

By: Joyce Erceg

Joyce Erceg — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:56:37 +0000

Does anyone know of the Doughty family who lived at the brewery in Mile End Road around about 1900? A Mary Doughty was my great great grandmother. Her husband had something to do with clocking workers in and out, and perhaps something to do with looking after the horses too. Joyce.

By: Richard Willgoss

Richard Willgoss — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 09:24:07 +0000

When Charrington merged with Bass it became known as Bass Charrington – not the other way round.
When beer production ceased in 1975, production did NOT move to Canning Town. Beer was brewed in other parts of the country. However the distribution of beer moved to Silvertown NOT Canning Town.
And finally, Charrington’s brewery in Mile End (not exactly Whitechapel) was Anchor Brewery NOT Blue Anchor Brewery.

By: TONY HARRISON

TONY HARRISON — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:25:18 +0000

My Great Grand father started at Watney’s in Whitechapel in 1888 William Harrison followed by his sons Alfie and my Grandad William (Bill) in turn Alfies son peter was a rep, Williams sons were drayman Stan & my dad Arthur .
Then my Brother Robert started there and i joined in 1977 leaving in 2004 because of redundancy.
ending a continual service of our family at this depot for 116yrs. i have a couple of pictures of my dad working at Watney Manns.

By: Maureen Cocklin

Maureen Cocklin — Sun, 09 May 2021 14:32:19 +0000

Tony Harrison, my husband, Denis, remembers you from the brewery days. He said he hopes you are keeping.

By: Mr Peter Conington

Mr Peter Conington — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:10:29 +0000

Hi in the 1960s I worked for a firm of Solicitors .Crossman Block and Keith. They were Solicitors for the brewery Mann Crossman and Paulin.

By: Richard Willgoss

Richard Willgoss — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:11:17 +0000

You mention Charrington merged with Bass. Correct! But the name was Bass Charrington, not the other way round!
You also mention that when Anchor Brewery closed distribution moved to Canning Town but it actually moved to Silvertown, which is different.
You may wish to correct this.

By: Bob Spencer

Bob Spencer — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 12:53:49 +0000

To Tony Harrison,I worked at the Albion brewery from 1960 to 1967,in the chilled beer dept,one of the shift chargehands on the red barrel line was Jock Harrison, any relative?,my best pal there was Jeff Johnson,he was a chiller.Fred Fry was dept foreman then,Joe Flynn was my shift chargehand,they were all characters..Bill Dowden, Jimmy Green,Pat Rickard,Snowy,Tommy Kelly,Keith Coe…all smashing blokes,it was a pleasure to go to work there in those days.