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 Pedro Manuel Prudencio (1838-1908) and Thomas Charles Brooke (1830-98). 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.