Matthew Brown & Co. Ltd was a British brewery founded in 1830, originally based on Pole Street in Preston, Lancashire. In 1927 it moved to the Lion Brewery on Coniston Road in Blackburn after acquiring Nuttall & Co. In 1984 the company itself acquired T & R Theakston Ltd of Masham. Matthew Brown was taken over in a hostile bid in 1987 by Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd and ceased brewing in 1991.
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