Chesters Salford (Cook Street) Brewery
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Chesters Salford (Cook Street) Brewery
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 11 Mar 2014
Threlfalls Brewery, also known as Chesters Salford Brewery on Cook Street, was built in 1896 for Threlfall's Brewery Company. No longer a brewery it is a Grade II listed building (English Heritage ID:471548 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-471548-chesters-salford-brewery- British Listed Buildings) The brewery premises comprising two-storey offices, copper room, maturing room, single-storey boiler room, chimney and five-storey tower were built in pressed red brick with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. The brewery tower has the company name and 'Cook Street Brewery' in white brick beneath louvred top-floor openings. In 1961, Threlfalls and Chesters merged and then that company was taken over by Whitbreads in 1967. Brewing ceased at Salford in 1988 and the building sat empty for a decade falling into a state of disrepair along the way until sold in 1999. The former brewery premises have since been redeveloped into the Deva Centre, an urban business village which is now home to a diverse variety of companies. http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/outside/SALFORD/devacentre.html Manchester History Net
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