Taylor Walker & Co

Taylor Walker & Co was a brewery founded in 1730 in Stepney as Salmon and Hare, and later became Hare and Hartford. In 1796 John Taylor acquired Hare's share, and the company took the name Taylor Walker in 1816 when Isaac Walker became a partner [http://www.keith.emmerson.btinternet.co.uk/breweryh.html EAST LONDON BREWERY HISTORY - The Brewery History Society] . The brewery moved to Fore Street, Limehouse in 1823 and into the Barley Mow Brewery in 1889.

Taylor Walker & co merged with Ind Coope and Ansells in 1959 to become Allied Breweries [ [http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewery/706 Allied Breweries ] ] . Allied itself merged with Carlsberg in 1992 and became Carlsberg-Tetley.

The Barley Mow Brewery brewery was closed in 1960 and was torn down in the mid-sixties ["British Breweries: An Architectural History" by Lynn F. Pearson] .

The Barley Mow pub in Limehouse was attached to the brewery, it is now called The Narrow [http://www.gordonramsay.com/thenarrow/history/ The Narrow website] and is owned by Gordon Ramsay Holdings. Beer bearing the Taylor Walker name was brewed at the Burton plant of Allied Breweries (Ind Coope's successor) until the mid 1990s.

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* [http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewery/746 Web page at quaffale.org.uk]
* [http://www.keith.emmerson.btinternet.co.uk/breweryh.html East London Brewery History by the "Brewery History Society"]