Comments on: Two Lost Breweries Of Whitechapel https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/04/two-lost-breweries-of-whitechapek-iii/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:11:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Sue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/04/two-lost-breweries-of-whitechapek-iii/#comment-1796768 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:11:14 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204249#comment-1796768 Ah this reminded me of the beautiful horses which helped deliver beer to the pubs near Roman Road in the East End. My favourite pair were name Thunder and Lightening. This was in the late 1950s.

]]> By: Peter Holford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/09/04/two-lost-breweries-of-whitechapek-iii/#comment-1792133 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:46:40 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=204249#comment-1792133 Thanks for this piece of history. With my family having been publicans in various East End pubs it’s always an interest for me. It is sad that the breweries had such quick and ignominious endings and probably would have happened at some point as land prices made it worth the businesses relocating. But it would have happened much later if they hadn’t been owned by large concerns whose only goal was to maximise shareholder returns. On a slightly smaller scale, Young’s of Wandsworth survived until the older generation died out (John Young), at which point his heirs quickly cashed in on the land value. RIP Young’s beers – still contract brewed somewhere further north and devoid of all the old character.

Next on the list is Fuller’s at Chiswick. That has been sold to Asahi who pay lip service to the heritage but for how long? And the less said about Truman’s…

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