![]() ![]() Mason retired in 1870 (rumour had it that his son had been killed in a tragic accident at the brewery), and sold his stake to Edwin Pope, who renamed the company ‘Eldridge, Pope, and Co’. When Sarah died in 1856, her share of the business passed to her son-in-law, a lawyer named John Tizard, who ran the company with Mason for another 14 years. Sarah continued to run the brewery after her husband’s death, forming a partnership with another brewer named Samuel Mason and trading under the name ‘Eldridge, Mason & Co’. Six years later Charles and his wife Sarah bought the small Green Dragon Brewery, and worked hard to expand the business until Charles’s death in 1846. The beginnings of the Eldridge Pope business empire came in 1831, when Charles Eldridge became landlord of the Antelope Hotel in Dorchester’s High Street. In 1760, traveller Emmanuel Bowen noted that Dorchester was famous for “brewing the best and finest beer in England, whereof great quantities have been of late years exported and consigned to London”. The link between Dorchester and brewing can be seen as far back as the 18th century. This is the story of the brewery and how it came to be such a defining feature of the county town throughout the 20th century. ![]() Eldridge Pope Brewery The History of the Eldridge Pope Brewery The Original Eldridge Pope Brewery as plannedįor over 100 years, the imposing Eldridge Pope Brewery was one of the most important buildings in Dorchester, at the centre of the town’s economy and the main source of wealth for its most prominent family, the Popes.
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