Combe, Delafield and Co
Brewery, of Castle Street, Longacre, London
From 1739 the Gyfford family operated the Wood Yard Brewery in Castle Street (later Shelton Street) near Long Acre
1787 The brewery, the fifth or sixth largest of London's porter breweries, was bought by Combe, Shum and Delafield. The brewery seems to have largely been run by two of the partners, Joseph Delafield, one of Samuel Whitbread's brewers, and William Packer, long employed at the Wood Yard brewery.
In the next thirty years the brewery prospered, although less spectacularly than those of Barclay Perkin, Whitbread, Truman, and Meux-Reid.[1]
1792 Partnership change. '...the Partnership heretofore subsisting between George Shum, Harvey Christian Combe, Joseph Delafield, Edmund Hamond and William Packer, of Castle-street, near Long Acre, within the City and Liberty of Westminster, Brewers, (trading under the Firm of Gyfford and Co.) is this Day by mutual Consent dissolved, so far as the Interest of the said Edmund Hamond is therein concerned. Witness our Hands this 26th Day of October, 1792...'[2]
1799 George Shum, Harvey Christian Combe, Joseph Delafield and William Packer, all of Castle Street, Long Acre, bought the business of Thomas Newnham of Bedford Row, porter brewer.
1799 Also bought the business of William Cator, brewer and owner of public houses
1809 Harvey Christian Combe, Joseph Delafield, George Shum, Harvey Combe and William Packer of Castle Street, brewers, bought the brewery of Edward Pickard, Nathaniel Stonard, Alexander Maitland, Ebenezer Fuller Maitland and Thomas Green of St John, Wapping, Middlesex
1810 Purchase by Combe, Delafield and Co of Hollingsworth and Co, carried on at the Southwark Public Subscription Brewery
1818 Harvey Combe and Joseph Delafield the younger bought the bankrupt business of Dickinson and Co of St John Street, Clerkenwell, brewers
1842 Partnership change. '...Partnership between the undersigned, Harvey Combe, Joseph Delafield the elder, William Delafield, and Joseph Delafield the younger, as Brewers, under the firm of Combe, Delafield, and Co. is this day dissolved, by mutual consent, so far as regards the said Joseph Delafield the younger, who retires therefrom; and all moneys due to and from the concern are to be paid to and by the said Harvey Combe, Joseph Delafield the elder, and William Delafield...'[3]
1852 Joseph Bonsor became a partner
By 1862 had become Combe, Delafield and Co
1866 'A cast-iron three throw shaft, employed for driving pumps, has been in regular use at Messrs Combe, Delafield, and Co.'s brewery, Long-acre, for upwards of eighty years.'[4]
1866 Partnership change. '...the Partnership business heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, William Delafield, John William Gooch Spicer, Joseph Bonsor, John Samuel Tanqueray, Richard Henry Combe, and William Dell, carrying on business as Brewers, in Castle-street, Long-acre, in the county of Middlesex, under the style or firm of Combe, Delafield, and Co., was this day dissolved by mutual consent, so far as regards the said John Samuel Tanqueray...'[5]
1888 Company incorporated; Henry Cosmo Orme Bonsor became a director
1890 Combe and Company Ltd was merged with other brewers to form Watney, Combe, Reid and Co[6]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Biography of Harvey Christian Combe, ODNB
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:23 October 1792 Issue:13470 Page:808
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:26 April 1842 Issue:20094 Page:1144
- ↑ Engineering 1866/07/27, p.70
- ↑ The London Gazette Publication date:20 March 1866 Issue:23086 Page:1932
- ↑ The London Gazette 17 January 1899
- National Archives [1]