MY Export Lager advertising panel

Category

Library Item

Item no

20630

Title

William McEwan & Co Ltd and William Younger & Co Ltd - It's MY Export Lager advertising panel

Description

In this 1930s advertising poster for MY Export a man and woman sit at a table sharing a bottle of export. She is wearing a blue polo neck and he is wearing a sports jacket and tie.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1935

Size

24.1 x 19.1 cm

Type

Promotional material

MY Export Lager was created after the merger of William McEwan & Co Ltd and William Younger & Co Ltd. The business of William Younger is said to date back to 1749 when William Younger set up a brewery in Kirkgate, Leith. However it was his wife Grizel who ran her deceased second husband's brewery and along with her sons, developed the firm of William Younger & Co. The business expanded to acquire many other premises over the years and in 1931 the company merged with William McEwan & Co Ltd. The Holyrood Brewery Complex was closed in 1986.
Find out more about brewers, William Younger & Co Ltd from the Jisc Archives Hub.

William McEwan was an apprentice of John Jeffrey, an Edinburgh brewer, and in 1856 he opened his own business- the Fountain Brewery, in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. It merged with William Younger & Co Ltd, Abbey Brewery, to form Scottish Brewers Ltd in 1931, and again merged with Newcastle Breweries Ltd in 1960 to form Scottish & Newcastle Breweries Ltd.
Find out more about the history of McEwan's brewery from the Jisc Archives Hub.

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