Upon on the Dissolution of the late Firm of Messrs. Phillips, Tidbits, and Phillips which has carried on a prosperous trade for many years), the whole of the valuable and extensive Estates and Property of the WISBECH BREWERY, CONSISTING of the commanding Freehold Brewery Premises, situate the Bank of the River Nene, together with 70 Hotels, Inns, & Public houses.

Leverington, Gorefield Green, Newton, Sutton St. Edmond's, Holbeach, Walsoken, West Walton, Walpole, Wiggenball St. German's, Clenchwarton, Elm, Friday Bridge, Outwell, Walton, Sutton St.James, Tidd St. Mary's, Sutton Wash, West Lynn, March, Tholamas Drove, Wimblington, Elmneth, Tidd St. Giles', Manea, Terrington St..Clements, Terrington St.John's and other places in the Counties of Cambridge, Lincoln, and Norfolk, all within a circle of a few miles round the Brewery.

The Town of Wisbech contains, according to the last census, upwards of 10,000 inhabitants for whose accommodation there is but a limited number licensed Inns and Public-houses, twenty of which form part of this property, while, in consequences of the operation of the statute restricting the Sale of Beer to houses rated to the poor at £15 and upwards in towns of this size, there will not only be no increase, but must shortly be a diminution in the number of beer-shops in Wisbech.

The Brewery itself is a noble edifice, and together with all the houses, is perfect and substantial repair, the Proprietors having annually expended large sums of money for that purpose.

The Town Houses and a large proportion of the Country Houses lie contiguous to the important engineering works now proceeding, and in contemplation,connected with the Nene Improvement Drainage Act.The Property may be viewed by permission of the tenants, and particulars obtained of Richard Tibbitts Esq, oundle.

Stamford Mercury[5] In 1886 George Harrison, the junior partner to John Elgood was reported in financial difficulties.

He is junior partner in the firm of Elgood and Harrison, brewers, Peterboro', but the petition only affects his private estate.

[8] Nigel and Anne Elgood's three daughters, Belinda Sutton, Jennifer Everall and Claire Simpson, are the fifth generation of the family to run the business.

The gardens, which contain 200-year-old trees, a lake and a maze, are promoted by the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

[11] Elgood Flag Porter is based on a traditional 19th century British recipe using yeast that was salvaged from containers or barrels in a ship that sank in the English Channel in 1825.