View from NNW showing part of N front of Wright's Brewery with part of numbers 20-32 North Methven Street in background

Description View from NNW showing part of N front of Wright's Brewery with part of numbers 20-32 North Methven Street in background

Date 17/6/1968

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 685511

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Wright's Brewery, North Methven Street, Perth, Perth & Kinross Perth was one of the earliest centres of brewing in Scotland, and had five breweries in 1825. One of these was John Wright, whose brewery in Methven Street was the ancestor of this one, which remained in the ownership of the same family until 1961. This shows the brewery from the north, showing how it was hemmed in by tenements. The building in the centre is the brewhouse, probably of mid-late 19th-century date. Note the large chimney for the boiler house and coppers. John Wright & Co remained independent until 1961, when the firm was taken over by Vaux of Newcastle, probably to secure Wright's tied public houses, for they closed down the Perth brewery almost immediately. It has since been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/3/29

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/685511

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