My aunt, Mrs Gladys Hawkes (nee Cook) worked at Tamplins brewey from 1941. I don't know when she left, but in 1966 she received a silver mug in recognition of 25 years of service.

Many years ago the Royal George at Hurst Green displayed an oval Tamplins Ales sign. The story was that the landlord's name was Tripp and that he did just that down the stairs and broke his neck. At his funeral villagers sent him flowers and the hotel became owned by Flowers.

There is no mention here of Tamplins Cannon Brewery at the bottom of Artillery Street. As a 10 year old in the early 1940s, us kids used to watch the bottles being cleaned as the machine was close to the entrance. At the front entrance, up on the roof was a golden cannon.

Thank you for this wonderful photo and information. The brewery belonged to my daughter's boyfriend's 5 x great grandfather Richard Tamplin when it was first founded.

My dad, Fred Hall, worked at Tamplins brewery for about ten years after the war, and mum worked there for a while too, that's how they met, We lived at 37 Hanover Terrace until 1980 , he then worked at Allen West. I can remember when the council wanted to tarmac our road and we kids were sent off to Tamplins to ask the men to move their cars, we ran amongst all the machinery hollering.

I live in Newcastle upon Tyne and a number of years ago bought a wooden crate with a lid from a junk shop in Alnwick Northumberland - it's a lovely old crate with Tamplins & Sons Brewery Brighton Ltd. Just today I decided to look up if the brewery still existed - so was interested to find this site - I wonder how it got so far up north!

My father, Geoff Wright, worked for Tamplins from around 1956 to 1967 when, as part of the Watney Mann group, he transferred to Wilson's Brewery in Manchester. I used to go with him to the brewery quite a lot and even remember seeing real coopers at work in the brewery yard. The fleet of drays was not maroon as stated above. They were mainly cream with a maroon piping and lettering. I remember that they were always immaculate and polished like fire engines. In the 1960s they would have the Watney's Red Barrel fitted to the cab roof. Other vehicles that could be seen at the brewery included the mid green Watney lorries that would come down from London. They sported gold lettering and again, the trademark Red Barrel. The larger tankers actually carried a tank that appeared to be made of wood - like a large wooden barrel. All again highly polished and clean. There was a lot of pride in being members of the brewery. I saw this at first hand in the 1970s when Watney Mann staff carried out a hard fought, but ultimately unsuccessful, campaign to prevent the hostile take over of the brewery by Grand Metropolitan (now merged with Guinness to form Diageo). Needless to say there was no less a sense of belonging amongst the staff at the Wilsons Brewery in Newton Heath, Manchester - the original home of Europe's finest football club !

My great, great grandfather, Amos Heneage Markwick was a drayman, I believe at the Phoenix Brewery, does anyone know if there is a staff list. He lived just up the road from the Brewery at Magdelain Place so I would think this must have been the brewery he worked at.

My father is a Tamplin (Richard Owen Tamplin Sr.).  Is the pub still in operation?