cache g - the treves trail
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The trail invites you to trace the footsteps of 19th Century doctor Sir Frederick Treves and his life in Dorset. As a resident of Dorchester and a supporter of the hospital, Treves was an eminent surgeon famous for befriending the "Elephant Man" and performing a life-saving operation on the hospital's patron, King Edward VII.TRANSCRIPT
Brewery Square DCH 175 Treves Trail
TheMasonFamilyTreves'swife,AnneElizabethTreveswasbornin1855asAnneElizabethMason.ShewasthethirdoffourchildrenofAlfredSamuelMasonandEleanorMason.AlfredMasonwasabrewer,maltster,andwineandspiritmerchant.Inthe1861census,AlfredMasonwaslivingwithhisfamilyinCharlesStreet,Dorchesterandby1871theyhadmovedto5SouthTerrace,SouthStreet.
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PartnershipsMasonwentintopartnershipwithSarahEldridgeandtradedas‘Eldridge,Mason&Co’.UponhisrePrementin1870,MasonsoldonethirdofhisstakeinthebrewerytoEdwinPope,formingthebrewery‘EldridgePope’.ARerMason’srePrementin1870,thefamilymovedtoKent.FrederickTrevesandAnnElizabethMasonweremarriedatSydenhamParkin1877.Onthe15thSeptemberthatsameyear,AlfredSamuelMasondiedatKingstonVillainSydenhamPark,leavinganestateofunder£25,000.
EldridgePopeTheoriginsofthebrewery‘EldridgePope’canbetracedbackto1837,whenhotellandlordCharlesEldridgeandhiswifeSarahboughtthe‘GreenDragonBrewery’onDurngateStreetinDorchester.Togethertheyturneditintoathrivingsmallbusiness,andfollowingCharles’sdeathin1846,SarahconPnuedtorunitinpartnershipwithlocalbrewerAlfredMason,underthetradingname‘Eldridge,Mason&Co.’
WhenSarahdied,MasonenteredintopartnershipwithWeymouthSolicitor,JohnTizard,Sarah’sson-in-law,buttheysPlltradedunderthename‘Eldridge,Mason&Co.’
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EldridgePope&Co.
WhenMasonrePredin1870hesoldhisthirdofthebrewerytoAlfredPope,forhisbrotherEdwinPopewhohadtrainedasabrewer,runningitunderthename‘Eldridge,Pope&Co.’ARerthedeathofTizardin1871,thePope’sengagedinvariouslegalbablesbeforefinallybecomingthesoleownersofthebusinessby1874.
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In1879,theypurchasedlandfromthePrinceofWalesEstateasthesiteforahugenewbrewerycalledtheDorchesterBrewery;thisincludedfouracresoflandalongsidetherailwayline.W.R.CrickmaycreatedthemajesPcandexuberantredbrickdesignthatwouldwinthebrewerymanyadmirersoverthenext100years.
ThebrewerywasbuiltonWeymouthAvenuein1880,andopenedin1881,completewithitsownwatersupplyandaccesstotheadjoiningsouthcoastrailwaylinebuiltbyIsambardKingdomBrunel30yearspreviously.Itimmediatelybecamethebiggestemployerinthetown,andaRer16prosperousyearsthePopesformedthelimitedcompanyknownas‘EldridgePope&Co.Limited’.
Bytheendofthe19thCenturythecompanyowned97freeholdpubsfromLondontoExeter.ThecompanybecamethewinesuppliertoQueenVictoriaandwasoneofthefirsttobeawardedtheRoyalWarrant.In1900AlfredandEdwinpurchasedPooleBreweryfromtheirbrotherGeorge,expandingtheirbusiness’potenPalfurtherandreallymakingitafamilybusinessadventure.Throughouttheremainderofthe19thandintothe20thcenturyEldridgePopeconPnuedtothrive,evenaRerafirein1922whenmuchoftheBrewhousewasdestroyed.ThepresentBrewhousewasrebuiltandreopened2yearslater,butthebrewerydidnotproducebeeragainunPl1925.
WhenEldridgePopesoldthesitein2002thecompanywassPllmanagedbyChristopherPope,oneofthegreatgreat-grandsonsofJohnPope.Inthe1920stheimageofasmilinghuntsmanwasadoptedtopromotebeersalesandlenditsnametoanewbrand,HuntsmanAles.ThishelpedlinkEldridgePope’sbeerstotheDorsetcountrysideandtheEnglishwayoflife.
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EldridgePope’stwomostwell-knownaleswere‘RoyalOak’and‘Hardy’sAle’,thelaberinrecogniPonofDorset’smostfamouswriter.
CecilPope(grandsonofAlfredPope)suggestedthecreaPonofanewaletomarkthe40thanniversaryofthedeathofThomasHardyin1978.At13%,ThomasHardy'sAlewasfeaturedintheGuinnessBookofRecordsastheUK'sstrongestcommerciallybrewedbeer.ItwasabigsuccessandconPnuedtobeproducedrightupunPl1999.
AlfredPopewithThomasHardyattheBreweryin1926
Now…Nowadaysthesiteishosttoastunningcomplexofshops,restaurantsandapub,fiongforwhatwasonceathrivinglocalbusiness.ItissPllpossibletoseethebrewery’srootsnow,canyouspotthem?It’shardtomissthebronzestatueinmemoryofthedrayhorseswhoworkedherewhenthesitewashometotheEldridgePopebrewery.ThestatueiscalledDrummer,whoissaidtobethelastdrayhorsebasedherein1970s.
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