Disposal of George Holloway's Brewery

From the Morning Advertiser

5th September 1827

 

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 Brewing

Hemel Hempstead

Pubs to let and disposal of household and brewery equipment
Auction at the Bell Inn, Two Waters by order of executors of Mr George Holloway
Five Public Houses to be let.
Bull Public House, Market Street [Markyate]. Tenant Mrs Foreman.
Half Moon Public House, High Street, Hemel Hempstead. Tenants Kitchener & Hoar
Leather Bottle Public House, Leverstock Green. Tenant Joseph Kingham
Queens Head, Corner Hall, near Two Waters, Hemel Hempstead. Tenant James Holloway
Red Lion or New Inn, near Nash Mill, Hemel Hempstead. Tenant William Raggett
Respectable residence, with malt-house, etc. and land totalling 80 acres.
Public Houses to be let for a term of 8 years at annual rents. Residence and Land by tender.
Sale of furniture, brewery plant, farm stock, etc. by order of Executors of George Holloway
Household Furniture (nothing exceptional for property of this size.)
 

A significant quantity of brewery equipment

 
 
Livestock - 5 horses, 78 cows, 14 pigs, poultry
Dead stock - wagons, carts, ploughs, etc.
Wheat, oats, barley, hay, etc.
Catalogues on premises, The Bell, Two Waters, The Swan, Boxmoor, ...
 Messrs Creed & Griffin, Appraisers, Surveyors, &c., Hemel Hempstead & No. 15, Tokenhouse Yard, Lothbury, London.

The brewery at Two Waters was owned by James Holloway from the 1780s and passed to his son George, who died in 1827. (see The Half Moon, Hemel Hempstead) It then became part of the estate of the Weller Brewery, Amersham

The Weller Estate was was sold to Benskin's Brewery, Watford, in 1930 and this is the fate of the public houses mentioned:

Bull Public House, Market Street [Markyate]. No longer exists.
Half Moon Public House, High Street, Hemel Hempstead. Closed 1912
Leather Bottle Public House, Leverstock Green. To Benskins in 1930. Still open.
Queens Head, Corner Hall, near Two Waters, Hemel Hempstead. To Benskins in 1930. Still open
Red Lion, near Nash Mill, Hemel Hempstead. To Benskins in 1930. Still open.
     
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