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The Bedminster Brewery of the late 19th and early 20th century was a small three-quarter brewery and yard that started out as a wine and spirit merchants. However it had links to the earlier Bedminster Bridge Brewery via the Hasell family of Wine and Spirit Merchants who originally had the old brewery.
From the Bristol Mercury - Saturday 30 March 1839 p.3:
TO BE DISPOSED OF
BEDMINSTER BREWERY, near the IRON BRIDGE
which has been established for 18 years, in consequence of
the bad state of health of one of the Partners. Immediate Pos-
session may be had. - Apply to W. & J. HASELL, Wine and
Spirit Merchants, 1, Bedminster Causeway.
March 29 1839
The Bedminster Bridge Brewery was eventually
disposed of to the firm of James & Pierce who occupied the
premises from at least 1842 until they were acquired by Georges Bristol
Brewery Ltd. in 1911.
William Hazell/Hasell was a brewer and wine and spirit merchant at 1 Bedminster Causeway c.1821-1839. He was born in Chew Magna around 1791, son of James Hasell and Sarah Bennett of Compton Martin. He married Susanna Nelmes Jerrard at Bedminster St. John on 15 Jan 1822. They had a daughter, Susanna Jerrard Hasell, baptised at St. Mary, Cheltenham on 2 Nov 1831. William had removed here by this date and was retired by 1851. He was buried at Cheltenham St. Mary on Jan 28 1864 aged 74. William started out on his own at Bedminster but was shortly joined by his brother Thomas. Brother George had also moved to Bedminster Causeway by 1851.
Thomas Hasell was a staunch Wesleyan Methodist and belonged to the congregation of the chapel at Back Lane, Bedminster. He was born in Dundry in 1793 son of James Hasell. He had a brother William in Cheltenham and a sister Eliza Nutte in Timsbury and brother John in Frome. He appears as a Wine Merchant at 1 Causeway, Bedminster in the 1841 census with wife Ann Green who he had married in Stoke Lane near Frome on 14 Oct 1816. He had a late sister Mary Short in Timsbury and she had two children Thomas and James in Timsbury. Thomas Hasell died in 1853.
John Bennett Hasell was born in Timsbury, Somerset, in 1826, son of George Hasell, a butcher born in Timsbury 1802, (son of James & Sarah and brother of Thomas and William) and Mary Ann Spreat. He married Caroline Keymore Bell of Norfolk at St. Marylebone, London, on 25 Apr. 1854. He was clerk to Thomas Hasell before taking over the business himself. In 1851 Saul James Bracher was running the brewery next door on the other side of Still House Lane that runs between the buildings. Note that this is the original Bedminster Bridge Brewery and NOT the brewery at 110-112 East Street, this latter premises is now the site of the Assembly Pub. John Bennett Hasell occupied the 110-112 East Street premises from around 1879-1889. The Bedminster Bridge Brewery was a glue works by 1900. The premises at 1 Bedminster Causeway was occupied by Henry Hemmens, wine and spirit merchant, c.1874 (Wright's directory). Hemmens later moved to number 8 where he ran the business with his wife until at least 1902.
James Hazel (Hasell) married Sarah Bennett in Compton Martin 28 Mar 1785.
Children were:
John, bapt. 19 Sep 1785 Ubley
William (no baptism record, kinship confirmed by Thomas's will)1791 Chew
Magna Thomas, bapt. 10 Oct 1793 Chew Magna
Sarah, bapt. 8 May 1796 Timsbury
Martha, bapt. 1 Apr 1798 Timsbury
Joseph, bapt. 17 Aug 1800 Timsbury
George, bapt. 4 Jul 1802 Timsbury
Ann, bapt. 1804 Timsbury.
Frederick William Giblett was born 1840 in Meare, Somerset, son of Edward and Jane Giblett, baptised 2 August and was brought up by his Maiden Aunt Elizabeth.Giblett. Frederick married Matilda Poulton at St.Peter, St. Albans, Hertford on 24 Oct. 1889. In the 1891 census he was a wine merchant living at 30 Alma Road, Clifton (next door to Edwin Avery, another wine merchant). Frederick died on 25 May 1904 at his then home of "Rosehill", Portishead where he had been living since at least 1901. Frederick had been in partnership with John Temple Boone as "Giblett & Boone" wine merchants. On 29 August 1888 the license for the Wine Vaults in the Quadrant, Clifton, was transferred to them from Charles Tovey. They had also acquired Tovey's old business at Stokes Croft.
After the death of Frederick W. Giblett his nephew Frederick Samuel Giblett carried on the partnership for a while until 1908 when the Westen Daily Press announced the termination of the partnership:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
PARTNERSHIP heretofore subsisting between
us the undersigned JOHN TEMPLE BOONE and
FREDERICK SAMUEL GIBLETT carrying on
business as Wine and Spirit Merchants at No. 51
Stokes Croft in the City and County of Bristol
under the style of WATERS and COMPANY and
at Nos. 110 and 112 East Street Bedminster and
The Quadrant, Clifton both in the City of Bristol
aforesaid under the style of GIBLETT and
BOONE has been DISSOLVED by mutual consent
as from the Eighteenth day of March One
Thousand Nine Hundred and Eight. All Debts
due and owing to or by the said late firm will be
received and paid by the said JOHN TEMPLE
BOONE who will continue to carry on the said
business.
Samuel Giblett was a wine cooper and brother of Frederick William Giblett. It was he who was the father of Frederick Samuel Giblett. Samuel was borne in Meare, Somerset, baptised 5 July 1846, son of Edward and Jane. He married Emma Albena Hillier at Weston-super-Mare on 15 May 1869, and son Frederick Samuel was born in 1874, registered in Clifton. In the 1891 census he is in business as a Wine Merchant at 110 & 112 East Street together with Joseph Daveridge, having taken over the business of John Bennett Hasell. The street numbering is incorrect in the census as it does not match the street directories as can be seen by checking the neighbours against the directories. The company remained part of Giblett & Boone and this branch was taken on by son Frederick Samuel when he came of age. Joseph Daveridge then became the landlord of the Star Hotel, North Street.
John Temple Boone, son of William Boone & Elizabeth, was born in 1859, baptised at Temple Church, Bristol (hence the name) on 30 March 1859. William Boone, John's father, had in fact married Frederick W. Giblett's maiden aunt Elizabeth Giblett in Meare, Somerset on 7 July 1851, so the two boys would have lived in the same household at some point. William Boone was a master cooper so connections with the wine trade were in the family. After the death of Frederick W. Giblett, John Temple Boone had moved into Frederick's former residence at 30 Alma Road, Clifton. John died here at his home suddenly, aged 61, on 22 Nov. 1920.
Frederick Daniel Pullen was born in 1859 in Poplar, Middlesex, son of Charles Denton Pullen and Jane King. In 1881 he was a clerk living in Lewisham, Kent. He married Grace Turnbull on 15 July 1899 at St. Matthias, Richmond, Surrey. Pullen joined partnership with John Temple Boone in 1908 after the departure of Frederick Samuel Giblett.
In September 1919 Grace Pullen was arrested at the Strand Palace Hotel and appeared at Bow Street on a charge of bigamy. Frederick and Grace had voluntarily separated in 1913 but the decree was not yet made absolute. Meanwhile Grace had married again in Barnstaple the previous June to Albert Gibbons, a demobbed soldier and now a tobacconist. She was remanded on bail. The decree was made absolute before she next appeared and she was bound over.
Frederick Daniel Pullen lived at Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton, he married again to Dorothy Elizabeth Holden in Bristol on 22 Nov. 1922. She did not live long, however, and died on 9 May 1923. He died in 1929.
The Western Daily Press of Friday 19 November 1920 p.1. carried the announcement of the sale of the three premises of 110-112 East Street; the Quadrant, and 51 Stokes Croft, as Boone & Pullen as the company was styled then, had ceased trading after being in business 30 years. Unfortunately the sale was postponed due to the unexpected death of John Temple Boone.
| Quart flat sided salt glazed brownware flagon | |
| Impressed: W. HASELL /
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| 2 Gallon Flagon / tap jar |   |
| Printed (top): 146 / THIS JAR IS THE PROPERTY OF /
THE / BEDMINSTER BREWERY / 110 & 112 EAST STREET (front) THESE JARS WILL NOT BE SUPPLIED / UNLESS PREVIOUSLY ORDERED (in circle) THE / BEDMINSTER BREWERY (Boone & Pullen trade mark) / PURE BEER / 110 & 112 EAST STREET Potter: Price Bristol. Metal carry handle. Small screw stopper. Tap aperture at front. |