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Description and History of Site:-
Although the brewery tower, tun room, cooler and loading area have been demolished and laid out as a garden, the gatehouse, stables and carriage house remain. Also the proprietor's house, now divided into two dwellings still stands, and features an elaborately carved panel above the front door depicting barley and hops, together with the initials J. A. and the date 1897. Small, purpose-built brewery complex, created in 1897 by James Alderson as a replacement for the Lower Brear Brewery (qv). The architect for the work was Joseph Frederick Walsh and was initially called Park Brewery, but changed its name shortly after opening. The business became a limited liability company in 1900, by which time Alderson was an old man seeking a less active role in its affairs. The new company was on friendly terms with the Warley Springs concern (qv) and it seems that brewing may have been transferred there from Windmill Hill prior to a takeover of the former concern by James Alderson & Co. Ltd. in 1910; if brewing had not ceased at Windmill Hill by that date, it did shortly afterwards.
Further Reading and References:-
P.W.Robinson, 'James Alderson, Brewery Proprietor', Aspects of Calderdale, Wharncliffe Books, Barnsley, 2002, pp. 61-64.
P.W.Robinson, 'Breweries of Northowram', A History of Northowram Township from 1800, Northowram, 2014, pp.300-302.
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