page_title: Shipstones Brewery
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Shipstones Brewery / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Last known surviving bottle of Shiptones Iron Brew - unopened as at Dec 2011
context_page_description: James Shipstone & Sons was a brewery in New Basford, Nottingham, England, that opened in 1852 and closed in 1991.
context_section_description: The company produced the Shipstones brand of beer, known locally as Shippos.
  The company was founded by James Shipstone in 1852 at the 7-acre (28,000 m²) Star Brewery in the New Basford area of Nottingham. A red illuminated star at the top of the brewery's tower could be seen for miles around.
  In 1922, it absorbed both the Beeston Brewery Company and William Hooley Limited.
  By 1939, the company owned 550 licensed premises, thirty diesel lorries for long distance delivery work and fifty horses for local delivery work.
  The brewery remained an independent family business until 1978 when the company was purchased by Greenall's of Warrington which also purchased a number of other breweries from neighbouring towns and cities. Greenall's introduced minor changes to the production of the various Shipstones beers and increased the marketing of the company. In 1987, Shipstones became the main shirt sponsor of Nottingham Forest F.C., an arrangement which continued until 1994.
  In 1990, Greenall's announced that they were ending all beer production and becoming a retailer only company. Production at Shipstones Brewery ended in early 1991 after 139 years. The Shipstones brand continued to be produced for some years afterwards at breweries in Burton upon Trent.
  Today the company offices have been taken over, while some housing and retail units have been constructed on other parts of the site. The landmark Victorian building, constructed in 1900 with later extension, remains standing and has been earmarked for conversion into offices.
  In November 2013, a 1921 portrait by Noel Denholm Davis of Sir Thomas Shipstone, of the family who owned the brewery, was auctioned by Biddle and Webb of Birmingham. It was purchased by a Nottingham art collector, Ash Gangotra, who offered it on long-term loan to a planned Shipstone's heritage centre.
caption: A bottle of Iron Brew, produced by Shipstones.
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