Ash Brothers are listed as maltsters at Agbrigg Kilns, Agbrigg in White's General and Commercial Directory of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley and Normanton 1887
Sylvester Atkinson listed as a brewer in Slater's Directory of Knottingley 1847. His brewery operated out of the manor house which had originally been built by the Ingram family to replace the Old Hall of the Wildbore family. The Ingram mansion, which from the eighteenth century housed the Swan Inn was fully equipped for brewing.
John Austin listed as a maltster at Sandal and Wakefield in White's General and Commercial Directory of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley and Normanton 1887
William Bywater listed as a brewer in Slater's Directory of Knottingley 1847. William Bywater was a local doctor where the Cow Lane (Ash Grove) surgery still survives in newer buildings The business is first mentioned in 1838 and was subsequently recorded in Slaters's but ceased trading some time before 1857 when Bywater died aged 69. With his demise the property passed to Francis Wride and although John Hall Bywater succeeded his father's general practice and resided at the site, the brewhouse which had been established there was reported as 'pulled down' and the former brewery used as a lumber room at that time.
Carter & Sons Victoria Brewery Fairground Rd, Wakefield. Founded 1830 merged with Kirk, Matthews & Co of Leeds in 1889 to form Leeds & Wakefield Breweries Ltd with 67 tied houses. In the 1880s., owned by Mark Carter. Owned the Cattle Market Hotel on George Street, open as a pub 1887-1930, now known as Ploughland House.
Castle Brewery Glasshoughton, started circa 1880 by Benjamin Mitchell son of William Mitchell of Mitchell Brothers where he had been the bookkeeper, Whitwood Mere. He married Ellen Castle.
Clubs Breweries (Wakefield) Ltd Only in existence from 1920 to 1925
N.L.Fernandes & Co Old Bridge Brewery, Doncaster Rd, Wakefield. The original Luis Fernandes Brewery. Founded in 1850. Sold with its 42 pubs to John Smiths in 1919. Fernandes' Bridge on Doncaster Road derives its name from the brewery of the Fernandes Brothers.
Gaggs, Carter & Co Hill Top, Knottingley. Founded 1803. Vestiges of their yard can be seen with drain holes in the limestone walling from canal towpath. The Carters were an ancient family from Kempston in Bedfordshire. Mark Carter founded the family brewing business in 1803 and his son extended into shipping and pottery manufacture.They are listed as "common brewers" in Baines' Directory of 1822 at Mill Close. John Carter was succeeded by George William a barnster who somewhere along the line sold off the brewing part of the business. Carter's were a large brewery for the time and had much property including well-known pubs in Pontefract, the Black Boy, Pineapple, Gardeners and Turks Head. They also owned the Sun in Featherstone and eleven nearby cottages. Two unusual things about The Carter family: They are distantly related to the former US President Jimmy and years ago before the Boothferry Bridge was erected a ferryboat carrying the family possessions across the Ouse sank. So somewhere at the bottom of that muddy river is the Carter family silver! Referred to sometimes as the Knottingley Brewery Company, a power struggle for control of the company in 1933, triggeed a protracted and expensive legal dispute which weakened the company leaving it vulnerable to predatory action by trade rivals. After take over battle between it and the Tadcaster Brewery Co, the brewery was bought and closed by Bentleys of Woodlesford in 1935, who acquired its 66 tied houses.
John Garthwaite Calder Grove, 1930 and Calder Row, Wakefield, 1936. See Calder Grove Brewery above.
Herbert Glover Calder Grove brewery, 1921.
Robert Harrison Kirkgate, listed as a brewer in Baines' Directory 1822 and Pigot's Directory of 1829
Minnie & Laura Harrison 65 Northgate, Wakefield, 1921.
William Hirst is associated with a brewery at Hill Top, Knottingley which occupied a site adjacent to the White Swan Inn, the property having originally formed part of the mansion of the Ingram family. The premises may have been used by Silvester Atkinson (see above) as a brewery following Hirst's retirement. When the brewery started is not known but Hirst is recorded living there by May 1825. At the time of the 1841 Census, Hirst was described as being sixty years of age and of independent means, living in a cottage at Hill Top with his wife Maria, who was ten years his junior, apparently retired, for in 1840 John Carter had obtained the leasehold of the property, which comprised five cottages, one of which had been "lately used as a beerhouse".
Edward Long brewery in Knottingley has been identified as that situated on the Old Hall site formerly in occupation by Gaggs, Carter & Co. Long�s Brewery is not recorded before 1838 and by the mid-forties his name as a common brewer had disappeared, being replaced by that of Silvester Atkinson who is known to have lived at Racca Green.
John McGuinn 5-7 Silver St, Wakefield, 1906
Mitchell Brothers Brewers & Maltsters Whitwood Mere, Castleford. Brewed for 10 years circa 1870, afterwards continuing as a maltsters only until 1950s, Surviving buildings still known as Lord Raglan's Maltings
Nostell Priory On the estate, the Grade II Listed Brewhouse and Refectory still survive, now used as office accommodation.
Oak Brewery see Calder Grove Brewery above
W.Pickersgill & Co. Ltd Old Castle Brewery, South Baileygate, Pontefract. Founded 1907 sold with 14 tied houses to Bentleys of Woodlesford in 1932. Notice that Tomlinsons revived the name. The brewery occupied a site on South Baileygate that then became part of the CWS Fellmongery that gave a particular perfume to the lower end of the town, and is now a retail park with Focus and Aldi.
Prentis James & Miles (Retail Kirkgate, Wakefield listed in Pigot's Directory of 1829
Steam Packet Brewery The Bendles, Racca Green, Knottingley, West Yorkshire. Founded 1990 behind the pub. Among the beers were Gamekeeper Bitter, Chatterley Wheat Beer, Blow Job, Ginger Minge, and the unforgettable Craam Stout (anagram of Camra). Plant moved to Kent Garden Brewery, 1998, after the death of founder Jim Mellors. Pub sold to Marpletime, Autumn, 2000.
M.Sanderson & Son listed as maltsters in White's General and Commercial Directory of Wakefield, Horbury, Alverthorpe, Sandal Magna, Stanley and Normanton 1887
Edward Sutcliffe Ltd (Maltsters) Barnsley Road, Wakefield, site now occupied by the Ruddy Duck public house. The Wakefield and South Elmsall Malting Company is recorded as operating here in 1923
Wakefield Spring Brewery Co. Ltd. Wild's Yard, Wakefield. 1894 - 1897.
Frederic William Walsh Duke of York Hotel, Westgate, Wakefield, 1923.
Walker & Co. Ltd Crown Brewery, Providence Place, Kirkgate, Wakefield. Started 1854 with purchase of Phoenix Brewery by George Newton, moving to Kirkgate as Crown Brewery, bought by George Walker & Co. in 1884. Brewery closed and 19 pubs sold in 1922.
Wallers Fine Home Brewed Ales Behind the Junction Hotel at Featherstone by Thomas Waller, although The Featherstone Trade Directory 1838 lists "Blacksmith and Beer House - Thomas Waller" operated as "Waller's Fine Ales" from 1898 until acquisition by Tetleys in 1913. When the brewery closed, the building was used as storage for a time by Featherstone Urban District Council. You can still see what must be a foundation stone with the initials TW near the main road entrance to the pub.
Young & Beckett later Young & Peirson, Park Buildings, Wakefield, listed as brewers in Baines' Directory of 1822 and Pigot's Directory of 1829