The Dorsetsire Brewery Company (Sherborne) Ltd (which was an amalgam of the Dorsetshire Brewery, Long Street, Sherborne and Baxter & Sons, also of Sherborne) was taken over in 1951 by Brutton, Mitchell & Toms Ltd of the Yeovil Brewery, Yeovil, Somerset who shut down the Sherborne brewery. They, in turn, were also taken over - by Charrington & Ltd of the Anchor Brewery, Mile End, London in 1960 and their brewery shut down in 1965. Charrington & Co Ltd merged with United Breweries Ltd in 1962 to form Charrington United Breweries Ltd and Charrington & Co (South West) Ltd was set up in 1963. In 1967 CUB merged with Bass, Mitchell & Butlers Ltd of Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire to form Bass Charrington Ltd who later became Bass plc before being split up around the turn of the century into a number of different parts owned by various companies both in the UK and abroad. Hann & Co Ltd itself ceased brewing around 1927.