White and Combe's Brewery, Tamworth, History, Details, Photographs

This brewery was established in Albert Road by Thomas White in 1860. Born in Bolehall in 1822, Thomas White was formerly a cabinet maker and established a small business in Tamworth's Bolebridge Street. His wife may have died in childbirth because he was a widow when the census enumerator recorded him as a widow living with his two year-old daughter Ann. When Thomas White moved to Albert Road to start his new business as a maltster and brewer, he was accompanied by his sister Catherine. The beers produced by Thomas White proved popular and within a decade he had a small workforce engaged at the site. Thomas White re-married in the 1860's; his wife Mary Ann hailed from Husbands Bosworth in Leicestershire. The profitable business enabled the couple to employ servants in the house. Born on the Isle of Skye, the wholesale wine and spirits merchant Norman McFie established a business next to the brewery and shared part of the brewery yard with Thomas White. Nearing the end of his working life, Thomas White went into partnership with John Combe, a younger brewer from Gloucestershire. By 1898 the business was trading as White and Combe. Thomas White died in 1901 but the brewery continued until the First World War. Indeed, John Combe was known to purchase pubs in order to develop a tied estate. In an auction held by Messrs. Winterton and Son in July 1906 he bought the freehold of the Seven Stars, an old pub situated on Watling Street at Wall. The company paid £1,055,0s.0d. Prior to this, John Combe had acquired the Green Man Inn at Clifton Campville. © Copyright. Images supplied by Digital Photographic Images.		If you have a genealogy story or query regarding this brewery you can contact me and I will post it here in addition to including your message within the website pages for Staffordshire Genealogy. “Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.” Winston Churchill

This brewery was established in Albert Road by Thomas White in 1860. Born in Bolehall in 1822, Thomas White was formerly a cabinet maker and established a small business in Tamworth's Bolebridge Street. His wife may have died in childbirth because he was a widow when the census enumerator recorded him as a widow living with his two year-old daughter Ann.

When Thomas White moved to Albert Road to start his new business as a maltster and brewer, he was accompanied by his sister Catherine. The beers produced by Thomas White proved popular and within a decade he had a small workforce engaged at the site.

Thomas White re-married in the 1860's; his wife Mary Ann hailed from Husbands Bosworth in Leicestershire. The profitable business enabled the couple to employ servants in the house.

Born on the Isle of Skye, the wholesale wine and spirits merchant Norman McFie established a business next to the brewery and shared part of the brewery yard with Thomas White.

Nearing the end of his working life, Thomas White went into partnership with John Combe, a younger brewer from Gloucestershire. By 1898 the business was trading as White and Combe.

Thomas White died in 1901 but the brewery continued until the First World War. Indeed, John Combe was known to purchase pubs in order to develop a tied estate. In an auction held by Messrs. Winterton and Son in July 1906 he bought the freehold of the Seven Stars, an old pub situated on Watling Street at Wall. The company paid £1,055,0s.0d. Prior to this, John Combe had acquired the Green Man Inn at Clifton Campville.
© Copyright. Images supplied by Digital Photographic Images.

If you have a genealogy story or query regarding this brewery you can contact me and I will post it here in addition to including your message within the website pages for Staffordshire Genealogy.

Winston Churchill by Arthur Pan [1943]
“Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.”
Winston Churchill

History of White and Combe's Brewery at Tamworth in the county of Staffordshire. Research is augmented with photographs, beer labels, pump clips, stories of local folklore, newspaper articles and a genealogy connections section for those studying their family history.