In 1824, Thomas Usher and his wife Hannah acquired a small brewery in Back Street, Trowbridge, renaming it Usher's Wiltshire Brewery. After 1945, the company acquired Conigre House and gardens in Trowbridge, then the home of the local
Liberal Club, enabling it to double the scale of its brewery and bottling plant. Having dropped the apostrophe from its registered name in 1951, In 1991 Roger North, the MD of Grand Met Brewing led a
management buyout creating a reconstituted Ushers Brewers Ltd, with an estate of smaller pubs deemed by Grand Metropolitan to be too small or not capable of redevelopment. The new company began acquiring pubs to provide a distribution network, under a holding company called Innspired Pubs. By March 1997 the company owned 541 pubs and floated on the London Stock Exchange after a previous float had been aborted in 1995. The accounts to 31 October 1998 showed the brewery making operating profit of £6.3m on sales of £45.8m whilst the tenanted pubs had an operating profit of £11.7m on turnover of £27.9m. Today, beers are brewed under the Usher name by the
Wychwood Brewery for
Refresh UK. == Legacy ==