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 George and Dragon
and also the Highland Laddie, Wellington Street, Hanley.
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.
