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.
1911 Coronation Mik Stout
Wharncliffe Extra Strong Ale 1920s
Oatmeal Stout 1920s
Stopper labels 1920s
Extra Special Stout 1920s
Light Dinner Ale 1920s
Nut Brown Ale 1930s
Pale Ale 1930s
Strong Ale 1930s
Stopper labels 1930s
1937 Coronation Mik Stout
1937 Coronation Milk Stout stopper
Guinness post 1936
Nut Brown Ale 1930s
Brown Ale 1940s
Brown Ale 1940s
Double Brown Ale 1940s
Double Export Amber Ale 1940s
Pale Ale 1940s
Pale Ale 1940s
Malt Stout 1940s
Export Ale 1940s
Gold Label Barley Wine 1940s
Gold Label Barley Wine 1950s
No 1 Barley Wine 1940s
No 1 Barley Wine 1950s
Roses Oatmeal Stout 1940s
Roses Original Stout 1940s
Roses Original Stout 1940s 3
Roses Original Stout 1940s
Brown Ale early 1950s
Brown Ale early 1950s
Double Brown Strong Ale early 1950s
Double Export Amber Ale early 1950s
Tennant, Lion Brown Ale early 1950s
Family Brown Ale late 1950s
Lion Pale Ale 1950s
Light Dinner Ale late 1950s
Malt Stout early 1950s
Malt Stout early 1950s
Lion Brown Ale late 1950s
Glucose Stout late 1950s
Pale Ale early 1950s
Pale Ale early 1950s
Don Jon Ale 1960s
Glucose Stout 1960s
Lion Brown Ale 1960s
Lion Pale Ale late 1950s
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.
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.
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!