Former Warwick's Brewery, Northgate, Newark, Notts.

Image: © David Hallam-Jones Taken: 1 Feb 2015

The former Warwick's and Richardson's Northgate Brewery. The Warwick family already owned a one and half acre site behind this plot upon which they would later build this brewery and even before the construction of these buildings they already had a small malting on it (Just visible to the rear). Mr Warwick Snr. extended his portfolio of land here to about 11 acres and in the 1870s the construction of this brewery was begun, with the first brew taking place in 1872. In 1888 the business was incorporated as Richard Warwick and Sons Ltd. In 1890 Warwick’s took over Trent Brewery in Millgate, Newark, which had been established in 1857 by Richardson, Earp and Slater and several others too. The newly amalgamated breweries became known as Warwick’s and Richardson’s Ltd. Over the next fifty years the company also bought out the following breweries: The Newark Brewery (dating from 1869) and the Albion Brewery, Newark (started in 1892); the Stones Home Brewery, Peterborough (from 1897); the Alma Brewery, Cambridge (from 1911) and the Brampton Brewery Co Ltd, Chesterfield (from 1955). At the time of becoming incorporated in 1890, Warwick’s and Richardson’s employed 133 people including 93 in the brewery and 40 administrative staff. In 1962 Warwick’s and Richardson’s were taken over by John Smith’s, Tadcaster Brewery Co Ltd and ceased brewing in 1966. This brewery was designed by William Bliss Sanders of South Kensington and was built by Baines of Newark.

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