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Note the new building in the photo on the corner.
Regent Street Regent Street
Note the 'Old Red Lion Hotel'
Chapmangate Chapmangate
Note the independent chapel built in 1807 to the left.
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Waterloo / Clubs Brewery
The buldings at the back of the Waterloo Hotel were used for the brewing of beer in the 1860's. Around 1880 it is speculated that Youngs built a new brewery in Chapmangate and brewed beer there until around 1910, when the premises were possibly acquired by the Cattle brewery. Youngs also owned The Waterloo Hotel and they also owned the Ousegate Brewery at Selby. In 1921, the Cattle brewing business was acquired by the Tadcaster Tower Brewery Co. and then they traded as York & District Clubs breweries who produced the 'Loco Ales' from 1925. The 1927 O.S. map of Chapmangate shows two breweries, with the site of the one illustrated below that the locals called 'The Clubs Brewery'.
Waterloo William Watson
William Watson's 1855 map showing the Waterloo Hotel (Now the United Services Club) and the greyed buildings at the back where beer was brewed.
Yorkshire Gazette 1881
Yorkshire Gazette 1881 (2)

Yorkshire Gazette
2nd April 1881
The important line is 'The brewery is of recent erection'
Yorkshire Gazette - Saturday 02 April 1881
Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Image reproduced with kind permission of http://www.thebritishnewspaperarchive.com/

Youngs bought the Waterloo Hotel and built a new brewery in Chapmangate
1927 Brewery map
OS Map of 1927 showing two breweries in Chapmangate.
The Waterloo Brewery is highlighted
.
Flaggon 2Flaggon 3
Flaggon 1
A flaggon of the earlier Waterloo Brewery - Thanks to Steve Elliott
Newspaper ad
Pocklington and Howdenshire Weekly News
5th Oct 1885
Thoroton Brewery
The York Herald - Sep 20th 1879
Thoroton Liquidation
The York Herald - Oct 12th 1880
Waterloo brewery sale
The York Herald - Nov 5th 1881
(Thomas Walker & Sons were auctioneers,valuers and estate agents in York est. in 1830)
Thoroton Pocklington
A stoneware ginger beer type bottle of Thoroton Pocklington
(courtesy of Steve Elliott)
 
Waterloo Hotel
It looks like the owners of the brewery
had an interest in the Waterloo Hotel
The York Herald - Jan 7th 1880

 
Youngs Advert
The York Herald - Aug 2nd 1884
 
Youngs Waterloo Brewery
The York Herald - Jun 24th 1885
Tower Breweries
From an early Pocklington town guide
Brewery 1
A Brewery Advertisement taken from an old Pocklington Guide
Clubs bottle
York & District Clubs Brewery Ltd., Pocklington
Bottle owned by Steve Elliott
Brewery 2

The photo above is from a Brewery Advertisement
taken from an old Pocklington Guide. First on left sat down is Tom Robinson who was
a brewery waggon driver.

Frederick Andrews
Chapmangate
Entrance to the brewery was through the metal gates here and the house would be the 31 Chapmangate where Frederick Andrews and later Mr Muirhead lived
1963 demolition
The brewery was demolished in 1963
Thanks to Maria Lee (née Welburn) for her kind permission for the use of the photograph
 
Owners and Tenants of the Brewery
 
1858 Kellys Directory None
1861 Census William Hatfield, at Waterloo Hotel, Publican, Brewer, Maltster and Corn Factor, Aged 37
1871 Census William Hatfield, at Waterloo Hotel, Publican, Brewer, Maltster, Corn Factor and Landowner, aged 48. Next door in Waterloo Buildings is Matthew Johnson, Maltster and Brewer Aged 51.
1879 PO Directory Pocklington Thoroton, brewer, maltster, wine & spirit & hop & corn mer. Waterloo brewery; & 11 Tanner row,York
1881 Yorkshire Gazette ...Newly built brewery... (see above)
1884/5 York Herald advert Young Co. Adverts (see above)
1889 Kelly's Directory Young & Co. brewers, Chapmangate
1892 Bulmers Directory Young & Co., Chapmangate
1897 Kelly's Directory Young & Co. brewers & wine & spirit mers. Chapmangate
1901 Ref. Don Parry* R.R. Young of Pocklington sold it's 4 tied houses to John Smith's of Tadcaster
1905 Kelly's Directory Young & Co. brewers & wine & spirit mers. Chapmangate
1910 Ref. Aldabella Business closed in 1910. Bought by Cattle?
Thought & speculation It is speculated that Cattle bought the Youngs Waterloo Brewery building a few doors up from the 'Old Brewery' as the Tadcaster Tower Brewery seemed to set up their business in the Waterloo brewery building and not the 'Old Brewery' site.
1921 Ref. Don Parry* The Cattle business was acquired by the Tadcaster Tower Brewery Co. in 1921 with 8 tied houses. which were conveyed to Tower Brewery by Ronald Middlebrook Cattle, brewer and executor to Henry Ward Cattle,deceased.The brewery was described as a three  quarter plant with extensive storage cellars,25 quarter malt kiln,spiit & bottling stores,stabling and coach house plus a bay windowed dwelling house fronting the main street, all the area covering 1647 sq.yards. The public houses were- Royal Oak, George Street, Horse Shoes, Market Street, Cross keys, Market
Street, Oddfellows Arms, Union Street, Buck,Market Place, Crown at Shiptonthorpe,
Black Horse at Seaton Ross, Plough at Allerthorpe and the Fleece at Bishop
Wilton.
1924 Ref. Don Parry* The Clubs Brewery took over the Brewery producing their "Loco Ales"
1925 Kelly's Directory York & District Clubs Brewery Ltd. Brewers, Chapmangage, T N Pocklington 22
1925 Kelly's Directory Middlebrough John & Sons, maltsters, Chapmangate
1929 Kelly's Directory York & District Clubs Brewery Ltd. brewers, Chapmangate. T N Pocklington 22
Andrews Frederick, 31 Chapmangate
1929 Kelly's Directory Middlebrough John & Sons, maltsters, Chapmangate
1933 Kelly's Directory York & District Clubs Brewery Ltd. brewers, Chapmangate. T N Pocklington 22
Andrews Frederick, 31 Chapmangate
1933 Ref. Don Parry* The brewery moved their business to a newly erected new model brewery at Huntington, York
1933-34 Ref. Don Parry* The brewery in Pocklington was then occupied for a brief period by Mr Muirhead trading as 'The Loco brewery Company'.
1934 Ref. Don Parry* Brewing ceased in late 1934
1937 Kellys Directory Muirhead James A. 31 Chapmangate
1937 Hull Daily Mail Dec 31st - 2 Copper-lined Hooped Vats, 400, 300 galls. - Brewery, Pocklington [were advertised for sale]
1963 Ref. Don Parry* The Old Brewery was demolished.
 
* With thanks to Don Parry (brewery author) for the information.
 
If you wish to add to the story of the Brewery, or correct any of the above information, then please contact me.