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Flower and Sons Ltd.
Flower’s Brewery was
founded in 1831 by Edward Fordham Flower. He was the son of Richard
Flower, a brewer, banker and sheep breeder who moved from London to
Illinois. Born in Hertfordshire, Edward Flower went to the United States
with his father but returned to England to establish his brewery in
Stratford-on-Avon. Indeed, he would later become the town’s mayor and a
magistrate for Warwickshire. Enjoying continual growth, Flower’s Brewery
was acquired by J. W. Green Ltd of Luton in
1954 and the name changed to Flower’s Breweries Ltd. In 1961 the parent
company was absorbed by the expanding Whitbread empire, one of the big
six brewers in the UK. Flower’s Brewery was closed in 1968 and
production transferred to Whitbread's Cheltenham brewery.
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