The Victoria Inn, Roundwell Street, Tunstall

The Victoria Inn, Roundwell Street, Tunstall

One of Parkers Inns
Originally in Well Street (later renamed Roundwell Street)

Victoria Inn sign in a tiled mosaic
mosaic inn-signs were a Parker's speciality

Founded in the 1860s, Parker's Brewery produced beer for the pubs all around the Potteries.

Registered as Parker's Burslem Brewery Co Ltd in 1889 when it had 110 public houses; sixty years later the number had risen to 468.

A few still survive, easily identifiable by their splendid mosaic inn-signs, Parker's specialities; the former Dog & Partridge in Hot Lane, Burslem is a case in point.

Others are recognisable by even more prominent proclamations to 'Parker's Celebrated Ales' in richly coloured tile and terracotta, located high up in their gables as exemplified by the Victoria Inn, Roundwell Street, Tunstall.

Parker's suffered the same fate as many medium sized breweries in post-war years when absorbed by larger rivals, Ind Coope & Alsopp, in 1949.

Brewing ceased in 1963. Most of the brewery buildings were demolished in the 1990s.