Home Brewery Co. Ltd. Seal
Home Brewery Co. Ltd. Seal, Image & Found by Barrie.
Found in Leicestershire. Dimensions 20mm X 23mm X 4mm.
Bulla type seal with continuous raised circular border on both sides. One side has a bearded man wielding a club over his head with his left arm. The other side has (H?)OME curved above (BR?)EWERY straight across the middle and Co LTD curved below.
From Wikipedia
"Home Brewery, Arnold, Nottinghamshire.
The town's most notable landmark is probably the Home Ales building in Daybrook. Founded in 1875, the brewery was famous for its Robin Hood logo on beermats. The brewery remained independent until 1986 when it (along with its 450 owned public houses) was purchased by Scottish & Newcastle for £123million. Scottish & Newcastle gradually moved production to its Mansfield brewery site, resulting in the eventual closure of the Daybrook building in 1996. Home Bitter is still brewed under contract at Everards in Leicester, although many of the public houses that used to serve it now sell Theakston's beers instead. The Home Ales building now houses county council offices. The illuminated 'Home of the Best Ales' sign was altered to include the Nottinghamshire County Council logo.
In 1950 the Home Brewery Company Ltd gave the land for Arnold's King George's Field, a permanent memorial to King George V and guaranteed for free public access in perpetuity for recreation."
From The Brewery History Society: Defunct Brewery Liveries
"Most of the brewery has been redeveloped, but the 1930s-1940s office block is retained. On the front gates - 'HOME BREWERY CO' lettering with wreath designs in gold. On each side of the tower a large sign 'HOME OF THE BEST'. When the brewery was operating these signs read 'HOME - OF THE BEST - ALES' - all the lettering was neon-illuminated, and each line lit up in sequence. The whole building, and the signs, are listed. The new road serving the redevelopment is named SIR JOHN ROBINSON WAY, after the brewery founder."
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