So around march 2016 i visited the brewery with @urbexodus and a non member, had a good explore, and even though it was a while ago and loads of people have reported it, just wanna get some pics up.
Credit for snaps go to @urbexodus
HISTORY
Stones Brewery (William Stones Ltd) was a brewery founded in 1868 by William Stones in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and purchased by Bass Brewery in 1968. After its closure in 1999, its major brand, Stones Bitter, has continued to be produced by the Molson Coors Brewing Company.
William Stones had started brewing in 1847 in Sheffield with Joseph Watts. Following Watts' death in 1854, Stones continued brewing by himself. In 1868, he purchased the lease of the Neepsend Brewery and renamed it the Cannon Brewery. He continued to brew there until his death in 1894. Stones' success saw him die as one of the richest men in Sheffield, although he lived a modest life. The company was taken over by Bass in 1968. In 2000, Bass sold its brewing operations to the Belgian brewer Interbrew who were ordered by the Competition Commission to sell the Stones brand. In 2002, the brand was purchased by the American Coors Brewing Company, who merged to become Molson Coors in 2005.
Stones Bitter was brewed at the Cannon Brewery from 1948 and was popular with Sheffield's steel workers. It was originally available across the south of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, with distribution extended to the rest of the north of England in 1977, and nationwide from 1979, accompanied by a considerable marketing push. Increasing demand saw it also brewed at other Bass breweries from the 1970s onwards. The beer's popularity reached its apex in 1992 when it was the country's highest selling bitter, selling over a million barrels.The beer has been lauded in certain quarters as "one of Sheffield's most famous exports". After the Cannon's closure production was continued elsewhere. Keg Stones Bitter (3.7 per cent alcohol by volume) is brewed by Molson Coors at their brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, and the canned product at their Burton upon Trent brewery.
Picture of brewery open in 1980's taken from https://sheffield.camra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Stones-Brewery-198xxx-768x558.jpg
REPORT
So its sometime in march 2016, 18 year old me, my little brother and @urbexodus had decided to go for a mooch and see what we could get into, donning our typical chav attire we set off into kellham island, looking very inconspicuous and smelling of the finest eau de wackybacky, we set off and this building dominates the view of neepsend and kellham island, we then knew that's where we were going!
After a quick scout round the building, we realized that our only way in was a climb up some now boarded up windows, and with the site been located on a main road with police driving up and down the road. We had to be quick, so i quickly clambered up the side, and i was in, followed by my brother, but there was a problem, we had attracted a group of school kids wondering what we were doing, so as i reached out to pull @urbexodus inside, me and my brother looked at eachother shocked. i had infact pulled on of the group of lads up instead of my brothers friend.. looks like we weren't going to have a peaceful explore after all!
I helped up urb and we scattered to try lose these pesky school kids following us around!
There was loads of relics and things left in the building, as well of the signs of drug addicts living in the building, and clearly been a hotspot for graffiti, we set about seeing what we could find.
At first glance the building looks very different to how it did in the 80s, mainly because of all the graffiti and the lack of brewing equiptment.
Inside the building is pretty structurally sound ( bar a few holes in the floor in places, and some very very old and sketchy stairs on the outside of the building)
Downstairs in the basement level was pretty grim and wet but still made for some nice picture
some old metal work hanging up still
Stair shots
After spending a while down there messing about and having a smoke, we decided to make our way up to the roof...
me and bro
On a nice day you can get a pretty nice view, but as you can see the weather wasnt on our side today but it was still nice non the less
Back inside now we carried on mooching and made our way through what we had missed
some form of metal work not sure what this could have been
some old ladders
one of the big holes in the floor from what i assume was some brewing equipment(wouldn't wanna fall down them!!)
flip side from one of the holes in the ground
And now for my favourite part of the building, the office!
When we visited in 2016 there had been a fire in there i think, and it wasnt in the best condition, but there was some cool stuff in there!
And all the wood looked beautiful and it was a nice contrast from the concrete and rusty metal!
Wouldve loved to have seen this before it was trashed!
loads of old paper work scattered about!
an invoice or receipt from the year i was born!
some more paper work
Going up the the stairs here didnt feel great so we made sure to tread lightly ( really loved the wood here such a nice thing too see it still looks fresh bar all the graff, which i think looks nice but wish it wasnt in this part of the building)
Looking back down these stairs you can really see the damage to this beautiful buiding and its such a shame, id hate to think what it looks like now in the current year, may have to go back and check it out
Been in here a while by this point and decided to call it a day, the "way out" was bricked up, so looks like it was climbing back down the side of the building out of the dodgy window
Thats all for this one, thanks everyone for reading and sorry if its abit messy cause its my first report.
And a big thanks to @urbexodus for letting me use the photos, we all took turns messing with the camera but all the hard work was done by him, and shout little bro for coming and been there.
Credit for snaps go to @urbexodus
HISTORY
Stones Brewery (William Stones Ltd) was a brewery founded in 1868 by William Stones in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and purchased by Bass Brewery in 1968. After its closure in 1999, its major brand, Stones Bitter, has continued to be produced by the Molson Coors Brewing Company.
William Stones had started brewing in 1847 in Sheffield with Joseph Watts. Following Watts' death in 1854, Stones continued brewing by himself. In 1868, he purchased the lease of the Neepsend Brewery and renamed it the Cannon Brewery. He continued to brew there until his death in 1894. Stones' success saw him die as one of the richest men in Sheffield, although he lived a modest life. The company was taken over by Bass in 1968. In 2000, Bass sold its brewing operations to the Belgian brewer Interbrew who were ordered by the Competition Commission to sell the Stones brand. In 2002, the brand was purchased by the American Coors Brewing Company, who merged to become Molson Coors in 2005.
Stones Bitter was brewed at the Cannon Brewery from 1948 and was popular with Sheffield's steel workers. It was originally available across the south of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, with distribution extended to the rest of the north of England in 1977, and nationwide from 1979, accompanied by a considerable marketing push. Increasing demand saw it also brewed at other Bass breweries from the 1970s onwards. The beer's popularity reached its apex in 1992 when it was the country's highest selling bitter, selling over a million barrels.The beer has been lauded in certain quarters as "one of Sheffield's most famous exports". After the Cannon's closure production was continued elsewhere. Keg Stones Bitter (3.7 per cent alcohol by volume) is brewed by Molson Coors at their brewery in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, and the canned product at their Burton upon Trent brewery.
Picture of brewery open in 1980's taken from https://sheffield.camra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Stones-Brewery-198xxx-768x558.jpg
REPORT
So its sometime in march 2016, 18 year old me, my little brother and @urbexodus had decided to go for a mooch and see what we could get into, donning our typical chav attire we set off into kellham island, looking very inconspicuous and smelling of the finest eau de wackybacky, we set off and this building dominates the view of neepsend and kellham island, we then knew that's where we were going!
After a quick scout round the building, we realized that our only way in was a climb up some now boarded up windows, and with the site been located on a main road with police driving up and down the road. We had to be quick, so i quickly clambered up the side, and i was in, followed by my brother, but there was a problem, we had attracted a group of school kids wondering what we were doing, so as i reached out to pull @urbexodus inside, me and my brother looked at eachother shocked. i had infact pulled on of the group of lads up instead of my brothers friend.. looks like we weren't going to have a peaceful explore after all!
I helped up urb and we scattered to try lose these pesky school kids following us around!
There was loads of relics and things left in the building, as well of the signs of drug addicts living in the building, and clearly been a hotspot for graffiti, we set about seeing what we could find.
At first glance the building looks very different to how it did in the 80s, mainly because of all the graffiti and the lack of brewing equiptment.
Inside the building is pretty structurally sound ( bar a few holes in the floor in places, and some very very old and sketchy stairs on the outside of the building)
Downstairs in the basement level was pretty grim and wet but still made for some nice picture
some old metal work hanging up still
Stair shots
After spending a while down there messing about and having a smoke, we decided to make our way up to the roof...
me and bro
On a nice day you can get a pretty nice view, but as you can see the weather wasnt on our side today but it was still nice non the less
Back inside now we carried on mooching and made our way through what we had missed
some form of metal work not sure what this could have been
some old ladders
one of the big holes in the floor from what i assume was some brewing equipment(wouldn't wanna fall down them!!)
flip side from one of the holes in the ground
And now for my favourite part of the building, the office!
When we visited in 2016 there had been a fire in there i think, and it wasnt in the best condition, but there was some cool stuff in there!
And all the wood looked beautiful and it was a nice contrast from the concrete and rusty metal!
Wouldve loved to have seen this before it was trashed!
loads of old paper work scattered about!
an invoice or receipt from the year i was born!
some more paper work
Going up the the stairs here didnt feel great so we made sure to tread lightly ( really loved the wood here such a nice thing too see it still looks fresh bar all the graff, which i think looks nice but wish it wasnt in this part of the building)
Looking back down these stairs you can really see the damage to this beautiful buiding and its such a shame, id hate to think what it looks like now in the current year, may have to go back and check it out
Been in here a while by this point and decided to call it a day, the "way out" was bricked up, so looks like it was climbing back down the side of the building out of the dodgy window
Thats all for this one, thanks everyone for reading and sorry if its abit messy cause its my first report.
And a big thanks to @urbexodus for letting me use the photos, we all took turns messing with the camera but all the hard work was done by him, and shout little bro for coming and been there.
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