The Royal Hop Pole is now part of a pub chain founded by what man?
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The Royal Hop Pole The Royal Hop Pole is a listed public house in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, with 28 hotel bedrooms. Located on Church Street, it is an English Heritage hotel. It has recently been converted into a part of the Wetherspoons pub chain. It is mentioned in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers. Free Wi-Fi is also available in the bar area.
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Wetherspoons J D Wetherspoon plc, branded as Wetherspoon's, is a pub company in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Founded in 1979 by Tim Martin, the company owns just under 1,000 outlets, including the chain of Lloyds No.1 bars and the chain of Wetherspoon hotels. With its headquarters in Watford, Wetherspoons is known for converting unconventional premises into pubs. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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Anchor Brewery The Anchor Brewery was a brewery in Southwark, London, England. Established in 1616, by the early nineteenth century it was the largest brewery in the world. From 1781 it was operated by Barclay Perkins & Co, who merged with Courage in 1955. The brewery was demolished in 1981.
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Broughton Ales Broughton Ales is a brewery near Broughton, in the Scottish Borders. The brewery was founded in 1979 by David Younger and James Collins in a former abattoir in the village and was the first initiated Scottish microbrewery . Broughton produces traditional cask conditioned beer, bottled beer and keg beer.
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Kops Brewery The Kops Brewery, founded by Henry Lowenfeld in 1890 was the first brewer of non-alcoholic beer in the United Kingdom.
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The Blind Beggar The Blind Beggar is a pub on Whitechapel Road in Whitechapel in the East End of London, England. It is notable as the former brewery tap of the Manns Albion brewery, where the first modern Brown Ale was brewed. The pub was built in 1894 on the site of an inn which had been established before 1654, and takes its name from the legend of Henry de Montfort.
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Sam's Chicken Sam's Chicken is a British fast food chain. It has 34 outlets, the majority of which are in west and north west London. It was founded in 1990 by Sri Lankan Sam Chandrasinghe, with the opening of its first restaurant in Wealdstone, Harrow, north west London. Chandrasinghe had previously worked for KFC UK as deputy operations director.
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John Nike Leonard John Nike OBE DL (5 July 1935 – 25 December 2016) was an English businessman, and a Bracknell-based leisure and hotel entrepreneur. He was best known for being the owner of the eponymous John Nike Leisuresport chain of dry ski slope complexes.
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Leeds Brewery The Leeds Brewery is an independent brewery established in June 2007 in Leeds, UK by former local radio presenter Michael Brothwell. The company uses a 20 barrel brewing plant located in a trading estate on the outskirts of the city; it is capable of delivering 150,000 pints of beer a week, and produces five regular brands, including "Leeds Best", a 4.3% best bitter, and the award winning strong mild ale "Midnight Bell". The company also produces a series of monthly specials such as "Gathering Storm", a 4.4% stout, in October, and "New Moon", a 4.3% black IPA, in February. The company had six pubs near the centre of Leeds, with a microbrewery upstairs at The Brewery Tap and one pub in York city centre but these were sold to Camerons Brewery in 2016.
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Henry Dimbleby Henry Richard Melville Dimbleby (born May 1970) is a British cookery writer and a co-founder of the Leon Restaurants fast food chain.
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Sainsbury family The Sainsbury family (also Lord Sainsbury and family and incorrectly the Sainsbury's family) founded Sainsbury's, the UK's second-largest supermarket chain. Today, the family has many interests, including business, politics, philanthropy, arts, and sciences.
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Cains Brewery Cains is a brewery in Liverpool, England, founded in 1858 by Robert Cain. The company merged with Peter Walker & Son in 1921 to form Walker Cains. Peter Walker & Son had a large brewery in Warrington so sold its Liverpool brewery to Higsons in 1923. Boddingtons of Manchester took over in 1985. In 1990 Whitbread acquired Boddington's brewing operations and closed the then Higsons Brewery in 1990. It was reopened by GB Breweries, who became part of Bryggerigruppen in 1991, and in 2002 was sold to Gardener-Shaw for £3.4 million.
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Roger Myers Roger Myers (born 1947) is the co-founder of Punch Taverns, one of the United Kingdom's largest chains of public houses.
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Selfridges Selfridges, also known as Selfridges & Co., is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom, operated by Selfridges Retail Limited. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store on London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK (after Harrods) and opened 15 March 1909. Other Selfridges stores opened in the Trafford Centre (1998) and Exchange Square (2002) in Manchester, and in the Bullring in Birmingham (2003).
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Tom Potter (brewer) Tom Potter is the co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Brooklyn Brewery.
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Colin Graves Colin James Graves (born 22 January 1948) is an English entrepreneur, known for founding the Costcutter chain of convenience stores.
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James Boag I James Boag I (c. 1804 – 1890) was the founder and proprietor of J. Boag & Sons, owner of the Boag's Brewery in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Skinner's Brewery Skinner's is a British brewery founded in 1997 by Steve and Sarah Skinner in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK.
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Beers Timber &amp; Building Supplies Beers Timber & Building Supplies Limited is one of several independent Builders Merchant based in Liverpool. The company was founded in 1916, and is currently under the management of the fourth generation of the founding family. The company have had a continued presence on Merseyside and now operate four branches across the North-West, at Warrington, Heswall and Eastham, (on the Wirral Peninsula), and the Head Office in Liverpool. Other companies within the group include Ecowarm Ltd, providing timber engineering solutions and roof trusses, Evans Bellhouse Ltd, a specialist softwood importer, and MBS Ltd, a specialist tool, workwear, and safety equipment supplier.
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Mark Fenwick Mark Anthony Fenwick (born May 1948) is a British businessman, the fifth generation of his family to run the Fenwick department store chain founded in 1882.
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Boodle's Boodle's is a London gentlemen's club, founded in January 1762, at No. 50 Pall Mall, London, by Lord Shelburne, the future Marquess of Lansdowne and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Charrington Brewery Charrington Brewery was a brewery company founded in Bethnal Green, London in the early 18th century by Robert Westfield. In 1766, John Charrington joined the company, which then traded as Westfield, Moss & Charrington from the Anchor Brewery in Mile End. It merged with United Breweries of London in 1964 to become Charrington United Breweries, then, after acquiring a number of other breweries, it merged with Bass Brewery in 1967 to become the largest UK brewing company, Bass Charrington, later simply Bass plc. The brewing operations of the company were bought by Interbrew (now Anheuser-Busch InBev) in 2000, while the retail side (hotel and pub holdings) were renamed Six Continents. In 2003 Six Continents split into a pubs business, now known as Mitchells & Butlers, and a hotels and soft drinks business, now known as InterContinental Hotels Group.