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CROWN BREWERY |
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KING STREET |
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John
Youngs is recorded as brewer in 1807.
In 1814
a notice was published in the London Gazette announcing the
partnership of
Jonathan Davey and John Youngs, the brewers Davey & Youngs, was
to be dissolved.
The company continued trading as Youngs & Company.
By the 1830's the company was run by John Youngs and his partner Mr Burt -
Youngs & Burt
Charles Crawshay was associated with a brewery at St Stephens Gates.
( Richard Crawshay sold this in 1851. )
Charles Crawshay joined John Youngs at the Crown Brewery and the new
enterprise was initially known as
Crawshay & Youngs, but later Youngs & Crawshay.
Mr Robert Carss Youngs joined and Youngs, Crawshay & Youngs was
formed.
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The articles of Partnership dated 17th March 1888 included under Article 2
that the Crown Brewery was the separate property of John Youngs the Elder.
Registered as a limited company November 1897
with directors John Youngs, Charles Crawshay, Charles T Collier
and Walter
C Crawshay.Mr Dennis Tyrell, head brewer, received a special Diploma of Merit in
1923.
Awarded by the Exhibition Authorities at the 1923 London Brewers
Exhibition
in recognition of the many trophies the brewery had won in open
competition.
At this exhibition they received the
Champion Gold Medal
Gold Cup
Silver Challenge Cup
By 1937 the brewery had further received :
7 First Prize Medals
10 Second Prize Medals
23 Diplomas of Merit
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The directors in 1937 were Captain W S C Crawshay ( Chairman ), Raymond G
Collier and William Buston
The brewery site covered some 3 acres and the company produced
12,000 quarters of malt per annum in their 5 malthouses.
In 1900 the company decided to run its own Architects and Surveyors
Department.
YC&Y became pioneers in modernising houses.
`At that time brick floors were common, sprinkled with sea sand.
There were spittoons and counter fronts were provided with a narrow trench
at floor level
to confine a layer of sawdust for those indulging in the objectionable
habit of spitting.'
YC&Y removed spittoons and introduced Lino, carpets and rugs to such
houses and advised their tenants
that a clean floor would be respected by their customers.
The company built several new properties, omitting
`the superfluous shapings and mouldings, plate glass windows and
over-ornamented stone work'
to be replaced with
`much more restrained architecture, restoring to these houses a dignity to
which the true licensed house is entitled.'
Both the R.I.B.A and the Norwich Society were reported to express
approval.
Sadly many of the distinctive houses have been demolished in recent years
or heavily remodeled.
In c1935/6 there was an Exhibition of Inn Signs in London.
Initially 12 signs were requested by the hanging committee to be
exhibited.
Such was the quality and popularity that a request came for `any further
ones available'.
All were hung in prominent positions, `that of the Royal Arms being
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50 tied houses when taken over by Bullards 1956.
Brewery closed 1958
Mr W B J Crawshay was appointed a director of Watney Combe Reid &
Co Ltd 21st April 1965.
He had previously been a director of Bullards.
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