There is a piece over at the BBC on new life for old breweries, concentrating on England so let's have a look at some of the former brewery sites in Wales:
Phillips Brewery, Dock Street, Newport - demolished, now a car park for Asda
Hancocks Brewery, Cardiff Road, Newport - demolished, now the Police Station
Lloyds & Yorath Brewery, Cambrian Road, Newport - demolished, now shops, although it was an open-air car park for years
Brain's Old Brewery, Cardiff is now home to the Brewery 1/4
Ely and Crosswells Breweries have both been demolished and industrial buildings/housing are now on the sites. The 1963 administration block was used until recently by South Wales police (Crosswell site)
Buckley's Brewery, Llanelli - partly demolished, residential accomodation and Aldi now on part of site
Rhymney Brewery (original), Rhymney - demolished, a Kwik Save was built on the site but that closed, demolished and was replaced by an Aldi, which Street View shows still open, though on a visit last year it was closed
View Larger Map Back across the border, someone pointed out to me that the site of the former Ushers Brewery of Trowbridge has become a housing estate
Crown Buckley brewery, pontyclun. Housing estate
ReplyDeleteCourage brewery is now a car park/ office block and Smiles brewery is a pub. Shame.
ReplyDeleteWrexham has the most extensive brewery remains of any town in the UK, except Burton on Trent.
ReplyDeleteThere are survivals at:
Llanwrst - Elias
Cwmavon - Westlakes
Roberts - Aberystwyth
Santa Clara - St Clears
David Roberts - Builth
John Tanquery - Llangollen
Giles and Harrup - Merthyr
All of Brecon's three larger breweries survive in good condition.
The maltings of Phillips of Newport survive, albeit damaged by fire, and their stables are impressive
At the Lloyd and Yorath site there is a small amount of brickwork surviving on the left hand side. The original Yorath site, the castle, survives!
The Brains brewery quarter is pretty rubbish, but incoporates sonme of the original structures.
Quite a lot of Buckleys survives. The Malthouse esp.
Felinfoel is still standing and working, as is Hancocks, Cardiff - still brewing of course - not to mention Whitbread - so I won't
There may be more out there. The Graig Brewery in Pontypridd was turned into a church in 1922. I don't know if that survives.
Captain Nemo
Wrexham has the most extensive brewery remains of any town in the UK, except Burton on Trent.
ReplyDeleteThere are survivals at:
Llanwrst - Elias
Cwmavon - Westlakes
Roberts - Aberystwyth
Santa Clara - St Clears
David Roberts - Builth
John Tanquery - Llangollen
Giles and Harrup - Merthyr
All of Brecon's three larger breweries survive in good condition.
The maltings of Phillips of Newport survive, albeit damaged by fire, and their stables are impressive
At the Lloyd and Yorath site there is a small amount of brickwork surviving on the left hand side. The original Yorath site, the castle survives!
The Brains brewery quarter is pretty rubbish, but incoporates sonme of the original structures.
Quite a lot of Buckleys survives.
Felinfoel is still standing and working, as is Brains' Hancocks, not to mention Whitbread
There may be more out there. The Graig Brewery in Pontypridd was turned into a church in 1922. I don't know if that survives.
Giles and Harrap, Merthyr was demolished in 2010
ReplyDeleteWestlakes suffered a serious fire a few years ago, future of the tower is in doubt
Never been able to find the Graig Brewery building so believe its demolished
Worth drawaing up a definitive list !!
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