Tennant Bros. Exchange Brewery

[LW SWFC]

Hi all, I'm currently researching the Exchange Brewery as part of a local history project for uni and was just wondering if anyone had any memories/photos/stories about the company and their products.

I have researched the company at both the Sheffield archives and central library, but any information would be massively appreciated.

I'm focusing the project on the early years of the company, concentrating on the three key figures in the early 1850s, Robert and Edward Tennant (both of whom seem to be rather elusive, with no surviving photographs featuring them) and Thomas Moore, the development of the Bridge Street site and the change of ownership following R. Tennant's death in 1866.

Thanks in advance!

Lewis

[vox]

Here's a quick starter for you Lewis.

Go to the Pubs section and do a search for more.

Good luck with your research, and please add any other information that you may find.

[LW SWFC]

Thanks for the pointers mate, I'll add anything I come across to the relevant threads. There's plenty out there relating to the company from 1882 onwards, but very little from the period before.

[Edmund]

Hope some of these are useful (though some I added purely for the entertainment value):

[LW SWFC]

Hope some of these are useful (though some I added purely for the entertainment value):

Tennant 1843.png

Exchange Brewery Arbitration 1850.png

Duke of Norfolk v Tennant 1852.png

Tennant 1859 Patent.png

Exchange Brewery Supper 1860.png

Moore election 1861.png

Exchange Brewery Accident 1861.png

Exchange Brewery Fire 1863.png

Exchange Brewery Accident 1864.png

Those are phenomenal! Thanks very much Edmund, they're exactly what I've been looking for!

I've given up looking for images of the brothers however, nothing in the archives, online or at the local studies library.

Also concluded that Edward Tennant died c.1846 in Tadcaster..

[Edmund]

Three paintings of Thomas Moore (in his capacity as Mayor of Sheffield) by Hugh Ford Crichton:

[Edmund]

Here's a reprint of an 1875 article about Tennants Brewery (from the Brewery History Society journal). It's quite readable (except the section on the political goings on).

Tennants Exchange Brewery article 1875

[Lysanderix]

A friend who as a young school leaver worked in their laboratory. She always maintained that Roddy Llewelyn worked there as well…before his friendship with Princess Margaret!

[Unitedite Returns]

Does anyone remember the rare 'privilege' of securing a visit to the 'in-house pub'?