>From Wallasey News Charter supplement "Birkenehead Brewery" "The Birkenhead Brewery was founded in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the brewing business's of two families were combined. These were the ASPINALL's and the COOK's whose separate breweries were situated in Cleveland Street and Oxton road Birkenehead On Aug 29 1865, they amalgamated and formed a limited company under the companies Act of 1862 with the title of The Birkenhead Amalgamated Brewery Co Ltd. This was later changed to The Birkenhead Brewery Co Ltd. It is probably the oldest established joint stock brewery company in existence In 1948 the company aquired Mackie and Gladstone (Birkenhead and Liverpool) Ltd now called Mackie (B & L ) Ltd wine and spirit merchants and in 1951 the mineral water manufacturing business of Moorhouse Bros Ltd was added to the group of companies ........................................ Caryl Liverpool Marriages and Obituaries http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpool/main.html Liverpool Snippets http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpool/snippets.html Liverpool Churches (also has Wirral churches) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpool/churches.html