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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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