Tennant Brothers Ltd

The original Exchange Brewery was established in 1820 and purchased by Edward and Robert Tennant in 1840. The brewery on Bridge Street was completed in the 1850s. The company was first registered in 1882as Tennant Brothers Ltd and merged with Whitbread  & Co in 1962, when over 700 public houses were owned. It then became known as Whitbread East Pennines. Final closure came in 1993.

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1911 Coronation Mik Stout
1911 Coronation Mik Stout
1937 Coronation Mik Stout
1937 Coronation Mik Stout
1937 Coronation Milk Stout stopper
1937 Coronation Milk Stout stopper
Brown Ale 1940s
Brown Ale 1940s
Brown Ale 1940s
Brown Ale 1940s
Brown Ale early 1950s
Brown Ale early 1950s
Brown Ale early 1950s
Brown Ale early 1950s
Don Jon Ale 1960s
Don Jon Ale 1960s
Double Brown Ale 1940s
Double Brown Ale 1940s
Double Brown Strong Ale early 1950s
Double Brown Strong Ale early 1950s
Double Export Amber Ale 1940s
Double Export Amber Ale 1940s
Double Export Amber Ale early 1950s
Double Export Amber Ale early 1950s
Export Ale 1940s
Export Ale 1940s
Extra Special Stout 1920s
Extra Special Stout 1920s
Family Brown Ale late 1950s
Family Brown Ale late 1950s

3 Comments

  • Fascinated by beer labels

    These are superb. There cannot be many labels that they produced that are not represented here. Are you sure the date stamping of their labels using a binary number code was in operation by the late 1940s? In which case the ones you have dated as 1950 should be earlier.

  • Peter D

    Thank you to Geoff, who has sent a number of images of Tennant Bros. labels. It shows that even when we add a large number of labels from one brewery, and some think there cannot be many more, that someone will find some additional examples. It also raises another point about the dreaded apostrophe.

  • Dale Adams

    The ‘dreaded apostrophe’ as Peter has termed it is quite a conundrum as there seems to be on consistence on when or why is appears before the S, after the S or not at all! What could the brewery been thinking when producing these variations!

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