[1] From its date of formation until the Second World War, the company acquired some fifteen independent breweries and their associated public house premises.

[1] After 1945, the company acquired Conigre House and gardens in Trowbridge, then the home of the local Liberal Club, enabling it to double the scale of its brewery and bottling plant.

[1] In 1964, the company changed its registered name to Ushers Brewers Ltd.[1] Watney Mann merged with Grand Metropolitan Hotels in 1972.

[4] Alchemy merged Ushers with 250 pubs in the Alehouse chain that they had acquired in June 1997, and replaced North with Robert Breare who came from a hotel background and proclaimed himself "a devotee of a major separation between brewing and retail".

[10][11] The main Trowbridge site was redeveloped into housing (including the Ushers Apartments)[12] and a Sainsbury's supermarket.