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Heaver Brothers Brewery, Bollington
Dyers Close (off Ingersley Vale, opposite the Crown Inn) was once the site of Bollington's biggest brewery, operated firstly by Parrott & Horsfield, licenced brewers, in about 1878, and later Heaver Brothers by 1896, then in 1920 it became a bottling plant for Ind Coope. It was lost in a disastrous fire in 1931.
There were two mills on the site which was known as Higher Mills - the brewery occupied the newer of the two. The whole site became Shrigley Dyers dye works ("We live to dye") before succumbing to housing development in 2001.
Heaver Bros Brewery was at Higher Mill, where Dyers Close is today. The Chief Brewer was Mr Oldfield.
This is one of the thousands of pictures of Bollington available to be seen at the Discovery Centre, Clarence Mill.
The two Heaver brothers were George and William Brown. George lived at the house called Jevington in Grimshaw Lane. From 1896 he was a member of Bollington Urban District Council.
Heavers supplied beer to the Turners Arms, the Cock & Pheasant, the Brittania, the Grapes and the Flying Horse among others.1
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1 Looking Back at Bollington, Longden & Spink, 1986 (Books)
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