Tadcaster Tower Brewery Co., St. Mary’s Corner, Grimsby; part of a broken flagon c1890.

In 1890, Tadcaster Tower Brewery Co., brewers, maltsters, wine and spirit merchants – H. G. Holden, manager (agent for the London Guarantee and Accident Insur. Co.), was on the west corner of West St. Mary’s Gate and Bethlehem Street i.e. St. Mary’s Corner. Virgin Money is on the site today.

By 1910, Tadcaster Tower Brewery Co., Ltd., brewers, maltsters, wine and spirit merchants and importers, ale and porter bottlers, R. A. Taylor manager, had relocated to 1-9 South St. Mary’s Gate where Abbeygate is today.

The Tadcaster Tower Brewery opened in 1882. The owners were brewers in York. In 1946, Hammond’s Bradford Brewery bought the Tower Brewery and the company was renamed Hammond’s United Brewery. There were a number of other name changes in later times.