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I was slightly frustrated by the lack of detail about pubs owned by non-Big Six breweries in my recent posts. Then I remembered that the Good Beer Guide usually mentioned how many tied houses a brewery had.
Time to trawl through my 1978 Good Beer Guide to extract the numbers. Which is reasonably doable as there were far fewer breweries back then.
The results are quite interesting. Though for the Big Six, the numbers are way wrong because not all of the brewery entries contained numbers of tied pubs. The real total was over 35,000.
However, for independent breweries, the numbers are fairly complete. I wouldn't claim that they were 100% accurate, as breweries were constantly buying, selling or closing pubs. But they give a resonable overview of the size and number of tied estates.
The number of quite large estates - those of 500 pubs or more - is surprisingly large at seven. While a further 18 were between 200 and 500 pubs and another 18 between 100 and 200 pubs. 43 estates were over 100 pubs and 42 below 100. Not sure what that tells us, but it's good to know.
If you compare this table with the one from 2017 I published a few days ago (https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2019/01/brewery-ownership-of-pubs-1974-2017.html), you'll see that some brewery estates have grown, while others have shrunk. Fullers have trebled the size of their estate, while Greene King's has expanded almost fourfold. Bateman's however, has been more than halved. I would guess that this is the result of rural closures rather than sales.
The biggest loser, however, is Camerons down from 600 pubs to just 58. Donnington appears totally unchanged, having 17 pubs in both lists. I wonder if they are the same 17 pubs?
Tied estates in 1977
Brewery
independent
Big Six
Adnams
72
All Nations
1
Alnwick
20
Ansells
2,400
Arkell
64
Banks's
770
Bass Charrington (Tadcaster)
1,000
Bass Worthington
Bateman
110
Batham
8
Belhaven
25
Blackawton
0
Blue Anchor
1
Boddingtons
270
Border
200
Brain
100
Brakspear
130
Matthew Brown
600
Buckley
180
Burt
11
Burtonwood
300
Cameron
700
Carlsberg
0
Castletown
36
Charrington
Courage
Crown
350
Darley
88
Davenports
110
Devenish (Redruth)
200
Devenish (Weymouth)
190
Donnington
17
Drybrough
Eldridge Pope
180
Eldgood
58
Everards
134
Felinfoel
80
Fuller
110
Gale
102
Gibbs Mew
56
Godson
0
Gray
51
Greenall Whitley
1,450
Greene King
850
Greenwoods
0
Guernsey
50
Guinness
2
Hall & Woodhouse
162
Hardy & Hansons
200
Hartleys
58
Harvey
24
Higsons
158
Holden
11
Holt
80
Home
400
Hook Norton
34
Hoskins
1
Hull
210
Hydes
50
Jennings
90
King & Barnes
59
Lees
150
Litchborough
0
Lorimer
205
McEwan
Maclay
25
McMullen
170
Mansfield
200
Marston's
600
Melbourne
32
Mitchells
47
M & B
2,000
Morland
220
Newcastle
712
New Fermor Arms
1
Northern Clubs
0
Okell
70
Oldham
100
Old Swan
2
Paine
24
Palmer
70
Pollard
0
Randall (St. Hellier)
28
Randall (Guernsey)
18
Rayment
25
Robinson
318
Ruddle
36
St. Austell
132
Selby
1
Shepherd Neame
234
Shipstone
250
Simpkiss
16
Smiles
0
John Smith
1,600
Sam Smith
200
Timothy Taylor
28
Tennent (Edinburgh)
Tennent (Glasgow)
Tetley
1,100
Tetley Walker
1,100
Theakson
6
John Thompson
1
Three Tuns
1
Thwaites
380
Tolly Cobbold
360
Traquair House
0
Truman
900
Usher
688
Vaux
510
Wasworth
143
Ward
96
Watney
1,600
Webster
288
Charles Wells
265
Welsh Brewers
605
Westcrown
0
Wilsons
720
Yates & Jackson
43
York
0
Young
135
Total
14,355
14,713
Source:
Good Beer Guide 1978
No. tied houses
No. estates
> 500
7
200 - 500
18
100 - 200
18
50 - 100
16
20 - 50
15
< 20
15
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I was slightly frustrated by the lack of detail about pubs owned by non-Big Six breweries in my recent posts. Then I remembered that the Good Beer Guide usually mentioned how many tied houses a brewery had.
Time to trawl through my 1978 Good Beer Guide to extract the numbers. Which is reasonably doable as there were far fewer breweries back then.
The results are quite interesting. Though for the Big Six, the numbers are way wrong because not all of the brewery entries contained numbers of tied pubs. The real total was over 35,000.
However, for independent breweries, the numbers are fairly complete. I wouldn't claim that they were 100% accurate, as breweries were constantly buying, selling or closing pubs. But they give a resonable overview of the size and number of tied estates.
The number of quite large estates - those of 500 pubs or more - is surprisingly large at seven. While a further 18 were between 200 and 500 pubs and another 18 between 100 and 200 pubs. 43 estates were over 100 pubs and 42 below 100. Not sure what that tells us, but it's good to know.
If you compare this table with the one from 2017 I published a few days ago (https://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2019/01/brewery-ownership-of-pubs-1974-2017.html), you'll see that some brewery estates have grown, while others have shrunk. Fullers have trebled the size of their estate, while Greene King's has expanded almost fourfold. Bateman's however, has been more than halved. I would guess that this is the result of rural closures rather than sales.
The biggest loser, however, is Camerons down from 600 pubs to just 58. Donnington appears totally unchanged, having 17 pubs in both lists. I wonder if they are the same 17 pubs?
Tied estates in 1977
Brewery
independent
Big Six
Adnams
72
All Nations
1
Alnwick
20
Ansells
2,400
Arkell
64
Banks's
770
Bass Charrington (Tadcaster)
1,000
Bass Worthington
Bateman
110
Batham
8
Belhaven
25
Blackawton
0
Blue Anchor
1
Boddingtons
270
Border
200
Brain
100
Brakspear
130
Matthew Brown
600
Buckley
180
Burt
11
Burtonwood
300
Cameron
700
Carlsberg
0
Castletown
36
Charrington
Courage
Crown
350
Darley
88
Davenports
110
Devenish (Redruth)
200
Devenish (Weymouth)
190
Donnington
17
Drybrough
Eldridge Pope
180
Eldgood
58
Everards
134
Felinfoel
80
Fuller
110
Gale
102
Gibbs Mew
56
Godson
0
Gray
51
Greenall Whitley
1,450
Greene King
850
Greenwoods
0
Guernsey
50
Guinness
2
Hall & Woodhouse
162
Hardy & Hansons
200
Hartleys
58
Harvey
24
Higsons
158
Holden
11
Holt
80
Home
400
Hook Norton
34
Hoskins
1
Hull
210
Hydes
50
Jennings
90
King & Barnes
59
Lees
150
Litchborough
0
Lorimer
205
McEwan
Maclay
25
McMullen
170
Mansfield
200
Marston's
600
Melbourne
32
Mitchells
47
M & B
2,000
Morland
220
Newcastle
712
New Fermor Arms
1
Northern Clubs
0
Okell
70
Oldham
100
Old Swan
2
Paine
24
Palmer
70
Pollard
0
Randall (St. Hellier)
28
Randall (Guernsey)
18
Rayment
25
Robinson
318
Ruddle
36
St. Austell
132
Selby
1
Shepherd Neame
234
Shipstone
250
Simpkiss
16
Smiles
0
John Smith
1,600
Sam Smith
200
Timothy Taylor
28
Tennent (Edinburgh)
Tennent (Glasgow)
Tetley
1,100
Tetley Walker
1,100
Theakson
6
John Thompson
1
Three Tuns
1
Thwaites
380
Tolly Cobbold
360
Traquair House
0
Truman
900
Usher
688
Vaux
510
Wasworth
143
Ward
96
Watney
1,600
Webster
288
Charles Wells
265
Welsh Brewers
605
Westcrown
0
Wilsons
720
Yates & Jackson
43
York
0
Young
135
Total
14,355
14,713
Source:
Good Beer Guide 1978
No. tied houses
No. estates
> 500
7
200 - 500
18
100 - 200
18
50 - 100
16
20 - 50
15
< 20
15
More... (http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2019/01/tied-estates-in-1977.html)