Smith, Garrett and Co
246 Bow Road, Bow, London E3
George Hodgson started brewing in Bow in 1752. His son Mark moved to the Bow site in about 1815-17. The brewery at Bow Bridge was rebuilt in 1821, when it was being run by Frederick Hodgson and Thomas Drane.
From at least 1838, the Bow brewery partnership was known as Hodgson and Abbott.
1841 Partnership dissolved. ' the Partnership heretofore subsisting between us the undersigned, Frederick Hodgson and Edwin Abbott, carrying on business as Brewers, at Bow, in the county of Middlesex, under the firm of Hodgson and Abbott, and at Wapping, in the same county, under the firm of E. Abbott and Co. was this day dissolved by mutual consent...'[1]
1849 Edwin Abbott and Son, Pale Ale and Stout Brewers, were in business on their own at the Bow Bridge brewery.
1863 Became the Bow Brewery Co
1869 Became Smith, Garrett and Co. Registered in July 1882.
1908 Directors: H. Cowell (Chairman), E. Garrett (Managing Director), J. Garrett, L. B. Garrett*, L. D. Nicholson, and R. W. M. Walker.
1927 Taken over by Taylor Walker and Co of Limehouse, and the brewery was closed.
1933 The Bow brewery was demolished to make way for London County Council flats.
- Presumably Lewis Berry Garrett (1837-1915), recorded as a brewery director in 1911 [2]