"Explored with OT, Speed and Laura"
Built by Eldridge Pope and Co in the 1870's, this handsome brewery with it's maltings, fine chimney and bonded stores closed in 2002 after a takeover from Marston's.
Much of the site was demolished, and the rest stripped. Still after seeing the recent reports I thought it looked like it could be a decent explore and as I am suffering from brewery fever at the moment we took a drive down to a part of the country I know very little about.
It was as empty as a bugger but a great building to explore. The maltings was odd too with round towers built into a square shell?? The malting floor was long gone but the furnaces were still in situ.
Note where the roof of a later addition had cut the shield bottom off!
Built by Eldridge Pope and Co in the 1870's, this handsome brewery with it's maltings, fine chimney and bonded stores closed in 2002 after a takeover from Marston's.
Much of the site was demolished, and the rest stripped. Still after seeing the recent reports I thought it looked like it could be a decent explore and as I am suffering from brewery fever at the moment we took a drive down to a part of the country I know very little about.
It was as empty as a bugger but a great building to explore. The maltings was odd too with round towers built into a square shell?? The malting floor was long gone but the furnaces were still in situ.
Note where the roof of a later addition had cut the shield bottom off!
