Peter Walker & Sons (Warrington & Burton) Ltd

The company was founded in 1864 and the Dallam, Warrington brewery built 2 years later. There were Burton on Trent branches at the Midland Brewery, which operated from 1890 -95 and the Shobnall Brewery, which operated until 1923, when all brewing was concentrated at Warrington. Although brewing exclusively at Warrington, the name was not changed to Peter Walker (Warrington) Ltd until 1948. The umbrella company was Walker Cain Ltd after the merger with Robert Cain in 1921, Tetley Walker after the merger with Tetley of Leeds in 1960 and Allied Breweries from 1961, although the name Peter Walker (Warrington) Ltd remained in use until much later. Final closure of the Dallam brewery came in 1996.

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1937 Coronation Ale
1937 Coronation Ale
Big Peter
Big Peter
British Lager Brewed in Burton
British Lager Brewed in Burton
British Lager Brewed in Burton
British Lager Brewed in Burton
Brown Peter Ale
Brown Peter Ale
Brown Peter Ale
Brown Peter Ale
Champagne Bitter
Champagne Bitter
Cooper
Cooper
Dark British Lager Brewed in Burton
Dark British Lager Brewed in Burton
Dietetic Stout
Dietetic Stout
Dietetic Stout
Dietetic Stout
Dietetic Stout
Dietetic Stout
Does anyone know what the beer was?
Does anyone know what the beer was?
Double Stout
Double Stout
Double Stout
Double Stout

5 Comments

  • Alastair

    I have a suspicion that the “Does anyone know what this beer was?” label is probably a printer’s or label designer’s sample label for the brewery. The quality/style of beer would be inserted where “BREWERS” is on the label in the gallery and the name of bottler or “Bottled at the Brewery” inwould replace the “squirly-whirly” design beneath the central horizontal insertion. Regards, Alastair

  • Georgina Walker

    Hi,
    It could be as Alistair says, a test print but I know that they made India Real Pale Ale.
    I can’t see that on here. I am his (Big Peters) great great great granddaughter, however I am no expert on who brewed what, exactly, as I wasn’t born!
    Before anyone asks, I don’t have any money so no, I can’t buy anyone a pint.

  • Edd Mather

    Peter Walker`s first brewery in Warrington , after the move from Everton was the rental of Pemberton`s Old Brewery (eventually purchased outright in the last 1/4 of the 19 th century , and latterly opperated the King St Brewery which i believe closed sometime around 1904 ? , the Dallam Lane Brewery was only built in the 1870`s .

  • Ray Walker

    Just found recently that my Grandads sister Phoebe was The Licencee to a Peter Walker Public house The Albion in Pensnett West Midlands from 1920 to 1923
    She must have been very special lady running a Pub, From what info we have her husband was a policeman or a Local Soldier. Now going to find out more

  • Onno Kleefkens

    Percy Christian – Registered in Liverpool as an agent for the sale and export of lagers to West African ports. The company is clearly not a bottler, but it did trade under its own label. Percy Christian later comes under the brewery of Peter Walker (Warrington & Burton) Ltd. Is there anybody who knows more about Percy Christian?

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