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Elgood and Sons, Brewery, 69 – 72 North Brink, Wisbech

History of Elgood's Brewery

Listed Building:

1901

Horace C Elgood, 38, brewer, b Godmanchester

Alecia, mother, widow, 77, b Somersham

Leonard G, brother, 34, b Godmanchester

Thomas A, brother, 32, b Godmanchester

Harriet Kingston, 59, cook, b Northants

Jane Taylor, 25,  housemaid, b Norfolk

Horace died in Wisbech in 1933.

Edward Storey, The Winter Fens, pub 1993, interviews Nigel Elgood.

The brewery at North brink was established in 1795 and came under the control of the Elgood family in 1878.

WWI: the brewery was bombed by a Zeppelin.

WWII: some of its metal vats and tuns were melted down.

See Elgood website.

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