Brewery and Breweries in the UK. Robert Cain and Sons Brewery.

I have been adding a couple of thousand pubs in Liverpool, and took an interest in recurring brewery names which are listed, e.g. Robert Cain and Sons. Here are a few details from newspapers etc. I list each brewer on a separate page.

Robert Cain and Sons Brewery

Liverpool Directories - All

Manchester Courier. 20 July 1907

Ships Rigger to Millionaire.
Death of Mr Robert Cain - Mr Robert Cain, head of the Liverpool Brewery Company, Messrs Robert Cain and Sons Ltd, died yesterday, aged eighty two, at his residence at Hoylake.
The late Mr Cain was originally a ships rigger, but left that calling to carry on a small beerhouse.
Subsequently he commenced brewing beer on a small scale and rapidly built up the huge business which now owns a large number of public houses all over the city of Liverpool and district.
Years ago Mr Will Crooke, M P, worked as a cooper in Cains Brewery at Liverpool. It is expected that Mr Cain's estate will be proved at well over £1,000,000. In his later months Mr Cain declined to sleep in a bed, declaring his personal conviction that if he once went to bed he would never get up again.

Daily News (London). 08 October 1907
Liverpool Brewers Estate.
The estate of the late Mr Robert Cain, Chairman of Messrs Robert Cain and Sons Ltd, brewers, of Liverpool has been sworn at £411,017. He leaves £59,000 of Preference shares in the brewery to his son, Robert S Cain, and £54,000 of similar shares to his four daughters. The testator confirms the settlement of £100,000 of Preference shares in the brewery to the widow and children of his deceased son, Herbert Cain. The rest of the estate is left in equal shares to his two sons, William E Cain and C A Cain.

Nottingham Journal. 19 September 1921
Big Brewers combine - Messrs Peter Walker and Son and Robert Cain.
A Liverpool correspondent telegraphs that the fusion of interests having been arranged between well known brewery firms of Peter Walker and Son, Liverpool, Warrington and Burton on Trent, and Robert Cain and Sons, of Liverpool, steps have been taken to float a public issue of capital, the underwriting of which is now in progress.
The deal is quite the biggest of its kind for some time past, being expected to run into eleven millions. Mr James White, the well known Lancashire financier, recently acquired all the £10 ordinary shares in Walkers numbering 125,000
Cain's were founded in 1848, and own 30? per cent of the licensed houses in Liverpool, taking over last November the old established business of Messrs Harding and Parrington, by which, they secured 70 licensed houses.
Robert Cain and Sons Ltd was registered on 11 December 1896, to acquire a business of brewers and spirit merchants. The authorised capital is £2,000,000 in shares of £1 each, of which £1,625,000 have been allotted and paid up. The capital is made up of 250,000 First Preference shares, 250,000 Second Preference shares and 1,500,000 Ordinary shares.
Peter Walker and Sons was registered on 16 April 1890, to take over the brewery and wine and spirit businesses of Messrs Peter Walker and Son, and Messrs Monro and Co at Warrington and Liverpool; Messrs A B Walker and Sons at Burton on Trent, and Messrs A B Walker and Co, at Liverpool. The authorised capital consists of £3,500,000 divided into £1,000,000 5 per cent Cumulative Preference shares of £10 each £1,000,000 7 per cent "B" Cumulative Preference shares of £1 each, and £1,500,000 Ordinary shares of £10 each, of which £250 of the latter remain to be issued. There are also 4 per cent First Mortgage Registered Debentures of which £1,000,000 (in £100 Bonds) are authorised and outstanding.

Liverpool Echo. 10 February 1982
Joshua Tetley, Based in Leeds and part of the Allied Lyons combine. In 1960 Tetley merged with Warrington based Walker Cain, itself the product of the takeover of Robert Cain and Sons by Peter Walker in 1921.

Bass took its present form in 1967 after the merger of Bass, Mitchells and Butlers with Charrington United Breweries. Shortly before the merger, Bass fought off a counter bid from Watneys to buy the independent Liverpol brewery, Bents.

Whitbread took over Liverpool based Threlfalls Chester in 1967. Threlfalls in their turn had bought Chesters in Salford, in 1961 and the Birkenhead Brewery the following year.

Higsons is still independant and now past its 200th birthday. The Higsons brewery in Stanhope street used to belong to Robert Cain.

Greenall Whitley, like the Walker end of the Tetley operation, Warrington based. One of the biggest regional brewers in Britain, with off-shoots in the border counties and the East Midlands.

In the 1861 census, Robert Cain lives at 3, Stanhope Street, Toxteth Park, West Derby, Lancashire.
Robert Cain, Licensed victualler aged 34 and born in Liverpool, Lancashire
Ann Cain, Wife, Housekeeper aged 30 and born in Newton, Lancashire
Anna Cain, Daughter aged 11 and born in Liverpool, Lancashire
Mary E Cain, Daughter aged 7 and born in Liverpool, Lancashire
Alfred Cain, Son aged 5 and born in Liverpool, Lancashire
Sarah A Cain, Daughter aged 2 and born in Liverpool, Lancashire
Maria Cain, Daughter aged 3 months and born in Liverpool, Lancashire
Mary Newall, Mother in law, Housekeeper, Widow aged 64 and born in Cheshire
Rebecca Fraser, General servant aged 24 and born in Ireland
Mary Keanan, General servant aged 28 and born in Armagh, Ireland
Edwin Dragg, Boarder, Labourer aged 18 and born in Staffordshire
Thomas Thomson, Barman aged 20 and born in Liverpool, Lancashire

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