Shanklin Brewery
Shanklin Brewery was established 1838, 1889 adverts (Isle of Wight Times) show the proprietor as William O. Taylor.
Shanklin Brewery purchased the Clarendon Hotel in 1887 for £1,000.
Harry Taylor died November 1901 and the brewery together with the Clarendon Hotel, Shanklin and the Royal Sovereign Inn, Castle Street, Ryde were put up for sale by Public Auction 17 December 1901. The brewery was advertised (IWCP, 14 Dec 1901) as being situated with frontages to Rectory Road (156ft) and Pomona Road (103ft). All the property was purchased by Mr. Saunders of Coppins Brewery Newport.
The Coppins Brewery became bankrupt in 1912 and the assets were acquired by H. Hoare & Son.
By 1946 it was trading as Shanklin Brewery, Ltd., with directors H. Terry Wood and Ernest L. Wood.
In 1950 Shanklin Brewery was taken over by Mr. Alfred Overstone Mitchell-Hedges and when the brewery closed in the early 1960's, Mr. Mitchell-Hedges open the Wine Lodge on the site.
