B & T, Panton Brewery

43 (17a) Panton Street, Panton Arms, brewery

History of 43 Panton Street

1869 brewery founded by Charles Lloyd Davis after he left the Earl Street brewery in 1869.

1881

James Cross, publican, 50, b Hunts
Emma, 33, b Hunts
Phillis L, 8, b Cambridge
Emily Wairing, servant, 17, b Notts

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1887 brewery sold to Barnet William Beales. Beales had been born at 42 Sidney Street. he became a well known Cambridge businessman.

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1892 Albert Edward Beales (Kellys)

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1897 Following a serious injury, Barnet sold brewery to Bailey and Tebbutt. Harold Barber Bailey was the son of Frederick Bailey of the Star Brewery.

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1901 (17a)

John Clark, 47, publican coachman, b Cambridge

Ellen E, 46, b Kent

Percy Clark, 18, college servant, b Cambridge

Hilda M, 12, b Cambridge

Tom, 10,  b Cambridge

Denys, 8, b Cambridge

Daisy, 14, servant,  b Cambridge

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1904 Sydney E Clarke (Kellys)

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1906-7 major expansion when site of newtown Hall was acquired. There were three boreholes of 155′-200′ to the Lower Greensand.

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1911 Panton Tap

Charles Oliver Orders

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1913

Henry J Whitby

Panton Brewery

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1918 private company registered, Bailey and Tebbutt Ltd

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1925

brewery taken over by Green King

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In 1933 Edward Fitzgerald was taken on as deputy manager of the Greene King brewery in Panton Street. The family moved from Suffolk and his son Desmond recalled in 2019 visiting as a boy and seeing that a ‘tea break’ was actually a ‘glass of beer’ break! It was a small brewery and his father stayed there until his retirement after 60 years working for Greene King.

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1957 brewing stopped

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1962

Leslie T Ambrose

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1968

Brewery demolished

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