Wednesday 19 February 2014

New life for old breweries

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

6 comments:

arn said...

Crown Buckley brewery, pontyclun. Housing estate

Anonymous said...

Courage brewery is now a car park/ office block and Smiles brewery is a pub. Shame.

Anonymous said...

Wrexham has the most extensive brewery remains of any town in the UK, except Burton on Trent.

There 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

Anonymous said...

Wrexham has the most extensive brewery remains of any town in the UK, except Burton on Trent.

There 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.

Brew Wales said...

Giles and Harrap, Merthyr was demolished in 2010
Westlakes 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

Anonymous said...

Worth drawaing up a definitive list !!

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