Can anybody help is this the rear of Bugg’s Brewery on Cowbit Road ? This is a carte de visite from about 1870 by W.Fletcher, New Road.
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Henry Burg III sold the brewery to Soames in 1889 following the death of his father, Joseph Burg who, in about 1877 had changed the family name to Burg from Bugg.(as to why, this remains unknown).
I’ve seen some old photos of the brewery in Soames days, but sadly I can’t recall where exactly they are for comparison, but if found, a check of rooflines etc. might clarify.
Geoff- if this IS the brewery in Bugg days – i.e. pre-Burg – then you have an absolute gem in the South Holland archive. Do you have the Soames Brewery photo’s in the archive? If they are comparable, perhaps you could post them side-by-side?
If this is Buggs Brewery, this is likely to be the back of Westbourne Lodge (not Westbourne House). There is a possibility the chimney is linked to the Albion Brewery on Double Street.
Found the snippet of article I was looking for:
“The Chicory Mill: the chimney, which has been some time in the course of election, in now completed, it is 93 feet in height the brickwork being 88 feet and the stone cap, by which it is surmounted, 5 feet high. It presents a very handsome appearance now that the whole of the scaffolding has been removed, and is decidedly the best mill which has yet been erected in Spalding. Very expensive alterations are being made in the premises, to adapt them to the manufacture of chicory. The Albion Brewery was built in the year 1824, and the whole of the buildings were erected in the most substantial manner: they were used as a Brewery until a few years since when Henry Bugg Esq, having become the proprietor, the business was removed to the extensive premises of that gentleman upon the Cowbit road”.
Lincolnshire Chronicle – Friday 13 September 1850.
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Henry Burg III sold the brewery to Soames in 1889 following the death of his father, Joseph Burg who, in about 1877 had changed the family name to Burg from Bugg.(as to why, this remains unknown).
I’ve seen some old photos of the brewery in Soames days, but sadly I can’t recall where exactly they are for comparison, but if found, a check of rooflines etc. might clarify.
Geoff- if this IS the brewery in Bugg days – i.e. pre-Burg – then you have an absolute gem in the South Holland archive. Do you have the Soames Brewery photo’s in the archive? If they are comparable, perhaps you could post them side-by-side?
If this is Buggs Brewery, this is likely to be the back of Westbourne Lodge (not Westbourne House). There is a possibility the chimney is linked to the Albion Brewery on Double Street.
Found the snippet of article I was looking for:
“The Chicory Mill: the chimney, which has been some time in the course of election, in now completed, it is 93 feet in height the brickwork being 88 feet and the stone cap, by which it is surmounted, 5 feet high. It presents a very handsome appearance now that the whole of the scaffolding has been removed, and is decidedly the best mill which has yet been erected in Spalding. Very expensive alterations are being made in the premises, to adapt them to the manufacture of chicory. The Albion Brewery was built in the year 1824, and the whole of the buildings were erected in the most substantial manner: they were used as a Brewery until a few years since when Henry Bugg Esq, having become the proprietor, the business was removed to the extensive premises of that gentleman upon the Cowbit road”.
Lincolnshire Chronicle – Friday 13 September 1850.