Black Sheep Brewery in Sweden, being in the top 20 of bottled ales sold in that country. Black Sheep Brewery The Black Sheep Brewery is a brewery in Masham in the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. The Black Sheep Brewery was established by Paul Theakston in 1991. Following a successful launch as a Business Expansion Scheme, it became a public limited company (plc) in 1992. Theakston had been managing director of Theakston Brewery, also in Masham, since 1968. He began at the age of 23, taking over from his father, Frank. Matthew Brown bought Theakston Brewery following disagreements between members of
Black Sheep (Hill novel) reveals the book was inspired by "a black and white photograph of a 19th-century engraving she found online". The village was, she says, "exactly as I describe. It was essentially an amphitheatre with all the mine workings in the bottom with the great gantry thing, and terraces of houses going up, and a little path with a gate through which people went down to work, and you could just see at the top where the houses petered out, farmland, country. You couldn't think of a more closed community than this bowl." Black Sheep (Hill novel) Black Sheep, is a novella