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This maybe the same brewery that was later owned by Swales and it was situated in Stanley Street, Newtown.

It was at the back of the Bowling Green pub wasn't it,Evelyn.

Dont know where the brewery was,but as a matter of interest the label on this bottle is pre 1911 and is one of the oldest genuine beer labels you can buy,it will set you back around £55 for one,still a few available.Farrimonds also canned beer in 'cone top beer cans',the original beer can. Go to globalbeercans.com click on 'my collection' to see the can, plus other sites show the can.To see the label, google 'Newtown Brewery Wigan' and click on 'Labels Unlimited'.

Hi Roy the web site says you can buy a label for £3.00 Where have you got £55.00 from?

Hardly unknown!!! Farrimond's Newtown Brewery was, as suggested above, situated behind the Bowling Green pub on Ormskirk Rd - Thomas Farrimond bought the pub, brewery and two attached cottages in 1883. The brewery was a large concern up to WW2 with quite a few pubs in and around Wigan - the only ones left as pubs are the Whitesmith's on Standishgate - now Casa Carlos- The Woodhouses (Keepers)in Woodhouse Lane and the Plough and Harrow in Up Holland.

They sold out to Swales in 1945 who were then bought out by Boddingtons 1971.

They owned: The Golden Cross, Trencherfield Inn, Crown and Anchor, Nags Head

Hi Ron, i'm struggling to find that particular web site again where I saw that price, it was a foreign one,the price was 60 Euros. I've been on that many sites today I dont know whether i'm coming or going! £3 will do for me.

Ince also had a brewery called Lawrence, it was on Belle Green lane on site of the old Smith Dairy, has anyone ever heard of it, I worked at the dairy, but never knew it as a brewery

Hi aitch - the 1881 directory puts the Lawrence Brewery in Lord St, across the other side of Manchester Rd and behind the Royal Hotel(both the Royal and the Walmesley were Lawrence houses). The building on Belle Green Lane near the pub of the same name is obviously a brewery and on the map it is merely called Ince Brewery so I suppose Lawrence could have moved to there later than 1881.

There was also another brewery in Pickup St called Moreton's; they had the Vauxhakll Inn in Scholes and were bought out by Cunningham's (Warrington) in 1931

Thanks for the input Ian, on the Ince directory for 1925, the lawrence Brewery is shown as just before the Belle Green Hotel on what is the old site of Smiths dairy, I didnt know that there wsa also another brewery in the area.

I'm not old enough to remember the brewery, but my Gran lived at 114 Belle Green Lane right opposite what I knew as Smiths Dairy. I remember her and my mother telling me that it was once a Brewery.