Horse Shoe Brewery

[1] The Horse Shoe Brewery was established in 1764 on the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street.

[1] He ran the brewery until January 1809 when he was joined in partnership by John Blackburn and Edward Gale Bolero.

[1] On the 17 October 1814, corroded hoops on a large vat at the brewery prompted the sudden release of about 7,600 imperial barrels (270,000 imp gal) of porter.

The brewery was located in a densely populated and tightly packed area of squalid housing (known as the rookery).

[4][nb 1] The accident cost the brewery about £23,000, although it petitioned Parliament for about £7,250 in excise drawback, saving it from bankruptcy.

[6] Meux employed three partners to manage the brewery: Richard Berridge, Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks and William Arabin.

[7] She took a liking to Admiral Hedworth Lambton, and he received her large share of the Horse Shoe Brewery when she died in 1910, on condition he changed his name to Meux, which he did.

Notable, until demolition in 2015, was the "Meux's Original London Stout" logo on the side of the derelict The Sir George Robey public house in Seven Sisters Road near Finsbury Park station.