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3 unusual facts about Ruddles Brewery


Langham, Rutland

Ruddles Brewery was based in Langham from its foundation in 1858 until it was closed in 1997.

Ruddles Brewery

A television commercial for Ruddles in 1993 featured the last appearance of Vivian Stanshall narrating as Hubert, brother of Sir Henry Rawlinson of Rawlinson End played by Mel Smith and a cross-dressing Dawn French.

The company lost its independence in 1986 and passed through the ownership of Watneys and was then bought by Grolsch in 1992.



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