Records of Red Tower Lager Brewery Ltd, brewers, Manchester, England

The collection consists of corporate records relating to R Stewart & Son. Includes:

• Corporate records, 1956-1985;
• Shareholding records, 1933-1979;
• Historical notes (not dated).

The brewery was founded as the Albert Brewery in 1875 ; it became the Red Tower Lager Brewery Ltd, Moss Side, Manchester. It was acquired by Scottish Brewers in 1956 and MY Lager was brewed there. The brewery was renamed the Royal Brewery and continues to brew lagers for Scottish & Newcastle plc in 2006.

The material is arranged according to the Scottish Brewing Archive classification scheme used within all SBA collections.

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Share Transfer Register deposited by HBOS Archives, Spring 2004.

See also University of Glasgow Collections

Digital file list available in searchroom.

No known copies of this material

Reproduction subject to usual conditions: educational use and condition of documents. Applications for permission to quote should be sent to Archives and Special Collections, please email: library-asc@glasgow.ac.uk

This material has been appraised in line with standard GB 248 procedures

Custody of the Scottish Brewing Archive was transferred to Glasgow University Archive Services in 2008.

None expected.

• GB 248 SB5/9/3, 1868-1958 Papers relating to acquisition of Red Tower Lager Brewery Ltd by Scottish Brewers Ltd (Includes correspondence, copies of deeds, documents and plans relating to land in Denmark Road, Moss Side); Minute Book, 1933-1944, in private hands - See http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B5910.

This material is original