Mitchells & Butlers Brewery was formed when Henry Mitchell's old Crown Brewery[1] (founded in Smethwick in 1866, and in partnership with Herbert Glendilling Bainbridge, former partner in Young's and Bainbridge from 1888[2]) merged with William Butler's Brewery (also founded in Smethwick in 1866) in 1898.[3]
Mitchells
Henry Mitchell had moved to the Cape Hill site in 1879[1] and this became the company's main brewing site. It had its own railway network,[4] connected to the national railway system from 1907 to 1962, via the