Brooke and Prudencio
From Graces Guide
of 124-32 Newfoundland Road, St. Pauls, Bristol
- 1889 Limited company registered on the 16th of August [1], as a partnership between Francisco Prudencio and Thomas Brooke. After the formation of the company, Brooke and Prudencio moved their bottling equipment from their existing factories on Captain Carey's Lane and Nine Tree Hill, both in Bristol, to a new factory at 124-32 Newfoundland Road, St Pauls, Bristol.The first managing directors of the company were Thomas Brooke, John Wilcox, Francisco Prudencio and his nephew, Francis Antonius Cotterell.
- 1920 Francis Antonius Cotterell, Managing Director.[2]
- 1921 Company liquidated on the 11th of April and became part of Bristol Industries Ltd
- 1930s Factories at Duntshill Road, Wandsworth, London, and 102-3 St Thomas's Street, Portsmouth.
- 1944 Bottling plant on Davies Lane, Lewes, East Sussex.
- 1950s Portsmouth branch re-located to Gruneisen Road (which became a Corona Soft Drinks depot in 1958).
- 1960 Went into receivership on the 15th of January.
- Newfoundland Road factory demolished in the early 1970s.
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