Business: Coldstream Brewery Co Ltd
Location: Coldstream
Type: Brewery
The Coldstream Brewery was established in the second half of the 1790s by Head, Jopling & Co.
When the partnership was dissolved in the second half of the 1810s, a new partnership - Thomas Jopling & Co - was formed to carry on the business.
That partnership was dissolved in 1923 and Thomas appears to have taken on the brewery on his own account until around 1826. It was then occupied by Hindhaugh, Trotter & Co until 1847, when the brewery was put up for sale.
The brewery came into the ownership of J. & A. Davidson around 1865, and stayed in their possession until 1918 when J. & A. Davidson (Coldstream) Ltd was formed to carry on the business.
It was then acquired by the Coldstream Brewery Co Ltd in 1922, and was used by them until the company was taken over by Vaux and Associated Breweries Ltd, of Sunderland, in 1944.
The brewery consisted of "an attractive group of 1- and 2- storey rubble buildings around a courtyard", parts of which survive today as housing.
Active: 1790s - 1944
Address: Market Place
Status: Part survives
Current Use: Housing
Web Resources
Canmore has a number of records relating to the Coldstream Brewery. Last accessed 19th July 2016.
Books and periodicals
Anon. Death of Mrs Black of Lanton: a benefactor of Coldstream. Berwickshire News, 24th September 1914, p.3.
Donnachie, I. A history of the brewing industry in Scotland. Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers, 1979.
Hume, J. R. The industrial archaeology of Scotland, 1: The Lowlands and Borders. London: B. T. Batsford, 1976.
