Picture of Sunripe Peanuts factory before it was demolished.

A Stroud & Co, 14-16,Green Lane, Hull. HU2 0HG

The building in Green Lane that used to be the Sunripe Nuts factory - now sadly demolished) used to be a Brewery. According to Pat Aldabellea and Rob Barnard's book 'Hull and East Yorkshire Breweries' James Robinson founded the Victoria Brewery in Green Lane in 1851. Later a William Smith became the sole occupant of the Brewery in c1873. William Smith & Co Ltd leased some or all of its licensed property to Worthington & Co. Ltd in 1901. (The CAMRA book 'East Yorkshire Ale' states ' Worthington bought William Smith's Royal Victoria Brewery in Green Lane, Hull along with its 40 tied houses in 1901). T. Lindsey & Co, agents for Worthington, used the brewery as stores until 1913 and in 1919 Owen Bros purchased the brewery, which was used for commercial purposes. There is a nice B&W photo of the former Victoria Brewery in Rob Barnard and Pat Aldabella's book on page 58 where it states a painted Victoria Brewery sign could still be seen on the gable wall until comparatively recently. The book was produced in 1997 - and the photo shows a sign for A. Stroud & Co. - Information kindly received from Mr A. Sykes - nut aficionado.

and before Sunripe Peanuts the building down Green Lane was the Victoria Brewery.

Thanks to Paul Gibson for the above photo.

Thanks to the horder aka Mr. Allan (Syko) Sykes