Courage Brewery, Reading - (VISITED JUL 2010) 2013

[Landie_Man]

2013:

Now totally demolished and part of a Tesco warehouse site.

2010:

Quoted from a Derelict Places member

Courage & Co Ltd was started by John Courage at the Anchor Brewhouse in Horselydown, Bermondsey in 1787. It became Courage & Donaldson in 1797. By 1888, it had been registered simply as 'Courage'. In 1955, the company merged with Barclay, Perkins & Co Ltd (who were located at the nearby Anchor Brewery) to become Courage, Barclay & Co Ltd. Only five years later, another merger with the Reading based Simonds' Brewery led to the name changing to Courage, Barclay, Simonds & Co Ltd. This was simplified to Courage Ltd in October 1970 and the company was taken over by the Imperial Tobacco Group Ltd two years later.Their v Brewery was opened in 1978. The Anchor Brewery closed in 1981 and all brewing was transferred there. Imperial Tobacco was acquired by the Hanson Trust in 1986 and they sold off Courage to Elders IXL who were renamed the Foster's Brewing Group in 1990.

Back on 12 February 2008, Scottish & Newcastle announced its intention to close its Berkshire Brewery Operations by early 2010. This left the 362 employees working at the brewery with an uncertain future.

It closes its doors for the last time on 2 April 2010.

This was a bit of cat and mouse with security!

MY photos

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Rooftop Service Tunnel

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More at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/landie_man/sets/72157624407098063/

 

[mookster]

I loved this place, we had absolutely no issue with security at all! A shame it was demoed so quick...

 

[seaside_rambler]

^ indeed, looked a fab place. Lovely pics, that rooftop tunnel is a bit trippy!

 

[skeleton key]

Nice to see this one Harry

Cheers for the share



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[Shush]

fookin Tesco knock down some decent places, think we should boycot them

 

[Wevsky]

This does look good,think we stopped by this one when demo was in swing!