| Administrative History | Wine and spirit merchants George Mugliston (c1784-1844) and his sons Edward Mugliston (1814-1851) and Robert Mugliston (1817-1852) had a brewery at Spa Lane, Chesterfield by the 1830s or 1840s. After the deaths of Edward and Robert the business was sold to brothers John Dunnell and Frederick Dunnell and sold again in 1857. The name Scarsdale Brewery first appears in 1865. The brewery changed hands several times until in 1895 it was acquired by Thomas Isaac Birkin (1831-1922). His son Philip Austen Birkin (1869-1951) became brewery manager and in 1919 Thomas Isaac Birkin conveyed the brewery to his son. In 1958 the brewery was taken over by Whitbread and Company after the failure of negotiations for a merger with Mansfield Brewery. The brewery closed in 1959. |
| Administrative History Sources | A local history website offers a very detailed illustrated history:
Dawn Rhodes 'Scarsdale Brewery, St Mary's Gate, Chesterfield' on A Chesterfield Blogger website: www.achesterfieldblogger.co.uk/newpage, accessed 2021 1901 & 1911 Census
British Newspaper Archive, www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk |