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George and Dragon pub, Joiners Square, Hanley

 

George and Dragon pub, Joiners Square, Hanley
George and Dragon pub, Joiners Square, Hanley
Corner of Oldham Street and Hampton Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
 

photos: Jan 2008

mosaic sign for the George and Dragon pub
mosaic sign for the George and Dragon pub


Parkers Celebrated Ales
Parkers Celebrated Ales

 

Founded in the 1860s, Parker's Brewery produced beer for the pubs all around the Potteries.

Registered as Parker's Burslem Brewery Co Ltd in 1889 when it had 110 public houses; sixty years later the number had risen to 468.

A few still survive, easily identifiable by their splendid mosaic inn-signs, Parker's specialities; the former Dog & Partridge in Hot Lane, Burslem is a case in point. Others are recognisable by even more prominent proclamations to 'Parker's Celebrated Ales' in richly coloured tile and terracotta, located high up in their gables as exemplified by the George and Dragon and also the Highland Laddie, Wellington Street, Hanley.

Parker's suffered the same fate as many medium sized breweries in post-war years when absorbed by larger rivals, Ind Coope & Alsopp, in 1949.


 

 


 

 


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