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

History of Elgood's Brewery

Listed Building:

Brewery built c.1795 by Denis Herbert of Royston.

Brewery offices; ground floor c.1800, first and second floors late C19 addition.

Late C18, or early C19 house. Double pile with symmetrical facade.

Early C19 house

Early C19 house.

Late C18 house,

Early to mid C19 stables.

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.

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