Crystal Palace Brewery?
Re: Crystal Palace Brewery?
Dear Falkor
I've recently started researching the history of Crystal Palace Brewery for a small talk I'm (hopefully) giving to Norwood Society's local history group next month.
Staff at Bromley local studies centre happened to dig out the two pictures when I visited them yesterday. I'd seen these pictures before on the Forum and thought they might be American but they are both of the Crystal Palace Brewery which stood just off Anerley Road in Madeline Road Anerley and which appears to have been destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. (late 1940?).
As the (very helpful) local studies staff pointed out to me the outline of the building in your pictures (front and side) matches that of a 1933 map in Bromley local studies collection which shows 'brewery' marked at that location.
The other clincher is the names Ransby and Billing which appear on the wagons in the side view. Another document from elsewhere describes Arthur Ransby and Thomas Billing "of the Crystal Palace Brewery, Anerley brewers Crystal Palace Brewery at the rear of the Clarendon Hotel, Anerley'. This document has dates of 1872 and 1873 on it.
As for 'City of London' on the front of the building there was a City of London Brewery Company which at one stage owned the White Hart which still stands on the corner of Church Road and Westow Street, Crystal Palace but I've yet to establish a connection between the City of London Brewery Co and the Crystal Palace Brewery (aprt from the obvious one!).
I hope this is of interest - and if you could please let me know where you found the pictures, it could well help me in my research.
Jerry
I've recently started researching the history of Crystal Palace Brewery for a small talk I'm (hopefully) giving to Norwood Society's local history group next month.
Staff at Bromley local studies centre happened to dig out the two pictures when I visited them yesterday. I'd seen these pictures before on the Forum and thought they might be American but they are both of the Crystal Palace Brewery which stood just off Anerley Road in Madeline Road Anerley and which appears to have been destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. (late 1940?).
As the (very helpful) local studies staff pointed out to me the outline of the building in your pictures (front and side) matches that of a 1933 map in Bromley local studies collection which shows 'brewery' marked at that location.
The other clincher is the names Ransby and Billing which appear on the wagons in the side view. Another document from elsewhere describes Arthur Ransby and Thomas Billing "of the Crystal Palace Brewery, Anerley brewers Crystal Palace Brewery at the rear of the Clarendon Hotel, Anerley'. This document has dates of 1872 and 1873 on it.
As for 'City of London' on the front of the building there was a City of London Brewery Company which at one stage owned the White Hart which still stands on the corner of Church Road and Westow Street, Crystal Palace but I've yet to establish a connection between the City of London Brewery Co and the Crystal Palace Brewery (aprt from the obvious one!).
I hope this is of interest - and if you could please let me know where you found the pictures, it could well help me in my research.
Jerry
Re: Crystal Palace Brewery?
Very interesting
One of my departed friends used to brew beer in the 70's and Brewed one called Vicars Oak , which he said was brewed by a Crystal Palace Brewery many years to commemerate the tree that was the boundry of four boroughs at Crystal Palace.
I was very very strong.
One of my departed friends used to brew beer in the 70's and Brewed one called Vicars Oak , which he said was brewed by a Crystal Palace Brewery many years to commemerate the tree that was the boundry of four boroughs at Crystal Palace.
I was very very strong.