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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, 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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