 Greenall's Brewery was founded by Thomas Greenall in 1762.Initially based in St Helens, the company established a second brewery at Wilderspool, south of Warrington in 1787.It bought the Groves & Whitnall Brewery in Salford in 1961, Shipstone's Brewery in Nottingham in 1978 and Davenport's Brewery in Birmingham in 1986.