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35-641: Margaret Drury Kemp-Welch (1874 – 15 January 1968) was a British painter and printmaker, mostly of landscape and portraits. She was also a teacher. Kemp-Welch was born in Wandsworth in London, the daughter of Stanley Kemp-Welch (1843–1929) and Wilhelmina Louisa Kemp-Welch, née Laing (1848–1934). She grew up in Kensington and received her education at the Royal Academy of Arts . She

70-605: A 60% stake and Young & Co 40%, went into operation on 2 October 2006. Wells & Young's is now responsible for brewing, distributing and marketing Charles Wells's and Young & Co's brands at the Eagle Brewery in Bedford. In August 2011, Charles Wells purchased Young's stake in Wells and Young's. Following a full rebrand in early 2015, the company went back to its roots and now trades as Charles Wells once again, reuniting

105-496: A considerable area of south-west London. The company's name evolved each time it merged with or took over neighbouring gas companies, but from 1936 it was the Wandsworth and District Gas Company . The company was nationalised in 1949 and became part of the South Eastern Gas Board . Wandsworth power station was built on The Causeway and supplied electricity to the district of Wandsworth from 1897 to 1964. It

140-459: A mile or two of the brewery. The Ram Brewery officially closed at the end of the business day on Monday, 25 September 2006. The brewery closing story was carried by BBC London news and as of 4 December 2008, the old Ram Brewery has been approved for redevelopment into a new shopping / business centre. The new owner of the site, property company Minerva plc , has hired one of the former Young's brewers, John Hatch, as site manager. One of his jobs

175-527: Is an illustration on the page each piece begins on, depicting scenes apparently from British village life. Margaret Kemp-Welch died on 15 January 1968 at Brighton in Sussex . Wandsworth Wandsworth Town ( / ˈ w ɒ n z w ər θ / ) is a district of south London , within the London Borough of Wandsworth 4.2 miles (6.8 km) southwest of Charing Cross . The area is identified in

210-439: Is on Garratt Lane. The library opened in 2009 and is located in the former court house, a listed building. The nearest railway stations are Wandsworth Town ; Wandsworth Common (one stop from Clapham Junction , and 12 minutes' train ride from London Victoria ); and Earlsfield , (one stop from Clapham Junction , and 12 minutes' train ride from London Waterloo ). Wandsworth Town is also served by Southfields tube station in

245-612: Is still based in Wandsworth. Until June 2007 it was based at offices at the Ram Brewery, but after that it moved into its new head office, around the corner from the former brewery site. On 9 August 2011, the company issued a press release announcing the sale of its stake in Wells & Young's Brewing Company Ltd to Charles Wells . Young's claimed that the Ram Brewery was the oldest British brewery in continuous operation. At

280-430: Is to keep brewing going on the site via a 'nanobrewery' set up in the old Young's laboratory. Hatch's new Ram Brewery brews at least once a week in order to maintain the "oldest British brewery" claim. In July 2013, the redevelopment of the site was announced, to provide new residential and commercial properties alongside shops, bars, restaurants and public open spaces. As part of the redevelopment, historic buildings on

315-528: The Wandsworth Bridge . Wandsworth Common is set back from the river, at the top of East Hill, and is adjoined by an area known locally as "the Toast Rack" that has some of the most expensive townhouses in London, as well as the restaurant Chez Bruce , formerly Harveys , where chef Gordon Ramsay learned his trade, and for which co-owner Bruce Poole gained a Michelin star in 1999. Also in

350-837: The London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London . Wandsworth takes its name from the River Wandle , which enters the Thames at Wandsworth. Wandsworth appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Wandesorde and Wendelesorde . This means 'enclosure of (a man named) Waendel', whose name is also lent to the River Wandle. To distinguish it from the London Borough of Wandsworth, and historically from

385-522: The Southfields area of the Town. All Saints' is the original parish church of Wandsworth, dating back to the 13th century, although the present building is mostly of the 18th century. St Anne's and Holy Trinity churches were built in the 19th century to accommodate a growing population. Built in 1851, Wandsworth Prison is a Category B men's prison. It is the largest prison in London and one of

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420-658: The Wandsworth District of the Metropolis and the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth , which all covered larger areas, it is also known as Wandsworth Town . At the time of the Domesday Book (1086), the manor of Wandsworth was held partly by William, son of Ansculfy, and partly by St Wandrille's Abbey. Its Domesday assets were 12 hides , with 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 ploughs and 22 acres (89,000 m ) of meadow . It rendered £9. Since at least

455-644: The 1920s and 1930s and where a mural painted by her is in St George's church in the village. The British Museum holds three of her prints and the Bushey Museum has many examples of her work. With Constance Cotterell she wrote the libretto for The Christmas Rose - a children's opera in three scenes with music by Frank Bridge . She also provided line illustrations for two albums of piano music by Frank Bridge: Miniature Pastorals, Set 1 and Set 2 . Each of these contains three short piano pieces, and there

490-660: The Ram Inn having been previously called The Brewery Tap then The Ram Brewery Shop & Visitors Centre. Records from 1675 show that the brewery was run by the Draper family, and in the 18th century, the Trittons purchased the brewery. It was purchased by Charles Allen Young and Anthony Fothergill Bainbridge in 1831. Since then it has been associated with the Young family, and until 2006 the last chairman of Young & Co belonging to

525-562: The Ram are from 1576 when a Humphrey Langridge, "beer-brewer at Wandsworth" (then a village in Surrey ), had his house broken into, and the thief was tried at the local assize court; this Humphrey Langridge is also recorded as being landlord of "the Rame" in 1581, and so it is surmised by Young's historian that Langridge would have been brewing at the Ram in 1576. The site of this inn is today once again

560-703: The Ridley Art Club. Kemp-Welch became an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE) in 1901. Brenda Girvin, an author of girl's novels, dedicated her 1918 book Munition Mary to "Margaret Kemp-Welch, My Munition Friend", which suggests that they were both munitions workers during the First World War. Kemp-Welch lived in London and then in Georgeham in Devon during

595-687: The Royal Standard, the East Hill and the Alma. East Hill is an area of large Victorian houses bordered by the west side of Wandsworth Common. From 2007 to 2014 the area was used as the location for the BBC TV series Outnumbered . Wandsworth High Street is dominated by the regenerated Southside shopping centre , cinema and restaurant complex (formerly called the Arndale Centre ). Behind

630-665: The Young's family was John Young , the great-great-grandson of the founder. The brewery supplied Young's public houses , in London and the area to the south-west, which still number over 200. It also sold to many other pubs and supermarkets. Beer was also exported to many European countries, Canada, the United States and Japan. The company produced three regular and a series of seasonal and occasional cask ales , keg lagers, and several filtered and pasteurised bottled beers. Young's also contract-brewed several beers for InBev, such as Courage Best and Mackeson Stout. On 23 May 2006,

665-556: The area is the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building , which now contains flats, a theatre school and a restaurant. The Tonsleys/Old York Road is a residential area of old Wandsworth close to the river and town centre, so called because many of the street names have the word "Tonsley" included. It has a village feel with the Old York Road's cafes and shops at its heart. The area has three notable pubs:

700-489: The company issued a press release announcing that the Ram Brewery was to close and brewing was to be moved to the Eagle Brewery in Bedford , then owned by Charles Wells . Wells & Young's Brewing, with Charles Wells having a 60% stake, and Young & Co 40%, went into operation on 2 October 2006. Wells & Young's was then responsible for brewing, distributing and marketing Charles Wells's and Young & Co's brands at

735-412: The company's Ram Brewery in Wandsworth was claimed to be Britain's oldest brewing site in continuous operation, with a history dating back to the 1550s when a Humphrey Langridge, "beer-brewer at Wandsworth", leased the Ram pub. A Ram pub on Young's brewery site was recorded from a survey around 1550 which details the owner as Elizabeth Ridon, who leased out the premises. The first indication of brewing at

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770-473: The different arms of the business under its founding name. In May 2017, Charles Wells announced that it was selling the brewery and wine business to Marston's Brewery together with the Bombardier and McEwan's brands and rights to the Young's brands. It said it would set up a separate brewery in Bedford to brew Charles Wells-branded beers in two years' time. The former Wells Brewery was subsequently renamed

805-715: The early 16th century, Wandsworth has offered accommodation to consecutive waves of immigration, from Protestant Dutch metalworkers fleeing persecution in the 1590s, Huguenots in the 17th century, to recent Eastern European members of the European Union . Between Wandsworth town centre and the river is the site of Young & Co's Ram Brewery . Shire horse -drawn brewery drays were still used to deliver beer to local pubs. Whilst brewing by Young's stopped in September 2006 when Young & Co merged its operations with Charles Wells of Bedford , brewing does continue on

840-537: The jointly owned Eagle Brewery in Bedford. The company was operated at arm's length from both Young's and Charles Wells. However a combination of directors from both companies sat on the Wells & Young's Board. Chairman John Young died on 17 September 2006, days before the closure of the brewery, whilst the final brew was being run at the Ram Brewery Wandsworth. Beer from the last brew was served at his funeral on 29 September 2006. Young & Co

875-518: The largest in Europe, with a similar capacity to Liverpool Prison . Young%27s Brewery Young's (Young & Co.'s Brewery Plc) is a British pub chain operating nearly 220 pubs. The company was founded as a brewery in 1831 by Charles Young and Anthony Bainbridge when they purchased the Ram Brewery in Wandsworth . The company closed the Ram Brewery in 2006, and the brewing operation

910-649: The shopping centre, and following the River Wandle upstream towards Earlsfield and further south to Wimbledon , is King George's Park . Wandsworth Museum previously occupied the former Victorian library in West Hill having been moved there in 2007. The museum closed in March 2015. The De Morgan Centre is currently situated in Wandsworth Museum and houses a collection of Victorian artwork. A green plaque to commemorate aviation pioneer Alliott Verdon Roe

945-443: The site by a master brewer albeit in small amounts. A planning application to redevelop the site for residential and shopping/leisure "mixed use" was submitted in 2012 and approved in 2013. In 2019 it was announced that Sambrook's Brewery will continue to brew beer on the site moving from their brewhouse on York Road in 2020 with John Hatch (former master brewer of Youngs Brewery) taking an active role in tours. Wandsworth gas plant

980-459: The site to build a new microbrewery, taproom, and planned museum. The brewery became operational in March 2021 and is now the main hub of Sambrook's brewing operation. The nano brewery is also still operational and the taproom was slated to be open by July 2021. The Ram Brewery was home to the MasterChef kitchen between 2011 and 2014. Wells & Young's Brewing, with Charles Wells having

1015-410: The site will be retained and restored; among other things they will house a new micro-brewery and a museum of brewing history (in which the coppers and beam engine will be displayed). The banks of the River Wandle , which flows through the site, will also be opened up to the public as part of the new development. In November 2020 Sambrook's Brewery , formerly of Battersea took a 25 year lease on

1050-480: The time of its closure in 2006, the brewery was a mix of ancient and ultra-modern plant, including a steam engine which had been installed in 1835 and had been in regular use until the 1980s. A number of animals were resident in the brewery, including a ram, a number of geese and about a dozen working draught horses , usually a shire horse . Until the closure of the brewery in 2006, the horses and drays were still used for local deliveries of beer to locations within

1085-518: Was built in 1834 against the River Thames near Wandsworth Bridge . The undertaking became the Wandsworth and Putney Gaslight and Coke Company in 1854 and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1856. Coal for making coal gas was brought by sea from North East England and unloaded on the Thames beside the gasworks. The firm grew by a series of mergers and takeovers so that by 1936 it served

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1120-539: Was owned and operated by the County of London Electric Supply Company Limited until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948. The power station was decommissioned in 1964. There is an operational 132 kV national grid substation to the east of the River Wandle. The former wharf area of the river-front is now lined with new apartment blocks, with several bars and restaurants including near

1155-780: Was the cousin of the artists Edith and Lucy Kemp-Welch and studied under Sir Frank Short and at Hubert von Herkomer 's school (as did her cousins) in Bushey in Hertfordshire from 1891. She taught at Clapham High School and exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours , at the Paris Salon , the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE), and

1190-493: Was transferred to a new company, Wells & Young's Brewing Company Ltd , which was a joint brewing venture with Charles Wells Brewery . Young's held 40% of the shares in the new company until the sale of its stake to Charles Wells in 2011. There is a rolling contract for Young's to take beers produced by Wells & Young's and by Marston's after it took over the Eagle Brewery in Bedford, an operation now called Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company. Until its closure in 2006,

1225-724: Was unveiled by Wandsworth Council and members of the Verdon-Roe family beside the A3 close to Wandsworth Fire Station on the site of Roe's first workshop in the stables of his brother's house at 47 West Hill. The underpass beneath the Wandsworth Bridge roundabout was the location for the scene in Stanley Kubrick 's A Clockwork Orange in which a tramp is attacked. There are several schools in Wandsworth including Shaftesbury Park Primary School. Wandsworth Town Library

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