Dray cart / trap from Joseph Holt Brewery Manchester North West England UK
Joseph Holt is a brewery in Manchester, England founded in 1849. Holts claim to be the only brewery still selling beer in 54 gallon hogshead barrels. Joseph Holt operates around 130 houses including traditional pubs, restaurants and hotels. Joseph Holt, the son of a weaver, was born in 1813 in Unsworth, a textile village near Bury. He worked as a carter at Harrison's Strangeways Brewery. In 1849 he married Catherine Parry, who helped finance a small brewery behind a pub on Oak Street, Manchester. In 1860, he purchased the brewery site on Empire Street, Cheetham. His reputation in Manchester endures; in 2007, readers of the Manchester Evening News voted him "People's Champion" in the "Greatest ever Business Leaders" awards. In 1882, by which time he had established a chain of 20 public houses, Joseph passed control of the brewery to his son Edward. Edward Holt was later knighted, served as Lord Mayor of Manchester for 1907-09 and made a baronet in 1916. He died in 1928 and the company passed to his son, Edward; it is still in the hands of the same family. For more than thirty years, Peter Kershaw, a former rackets and real tennis champion and a notoriously frugal man, was chairman of the brewery. His son, Richard Kershaw, the great grandson of the founder, joined him on the board in 1980 and, since the death of his father in 2000, is the chief executive.
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Location: Cock Lane, Northwich, UK
Photo credit: © Tony Smith / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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