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North Gate, NEWARK, NG24 1HJ

EIIR (Post Office) pillar box. The attached stamp vending machine (no longer selling stamps) is a real rarity.

Donna B's Tasty Bites takeaway food business on the corner of Northgate and Currie Road ..... not easily missed !

The former Warwick's and Richardson's Northgate Brewery. The Warwick family already owned a one and half acre site behind this plot upon which they would later build this brewery and even before the construction of these buildings they already had a small malting on it (Just visible to the rear). Mr Warwick Snr. extended his portfolio of land here to about 11 acres and in the 1870s the construction of this brewery was begun, with the first brew taking place in 1872. In 1888 the business was incorporated as Richard Warwick and Sons Ltd. In 1890 Warwick’s took over Trent Brewery in Millgate, Newark, which had been established in 1857 by Richardson, Earp and Slater and several others too. The newly amalgamated breweries became known as Warwick’s and Richardson’s Ltd. Over the next fifty years the company also bought out the following breweries: The Newark Brewery (dating from 1869) and the Albion Brewery, Newark (started in 1892); the Stones Home Brewery, Peterborough (from 1897); the Alma Brewery, Cambridge (from 1911) and the Brampton Brewery Co Ltd, Chesterfield (from 1955). At the time of becoming incorporated in 1890, Warwick’s and Richardson’s employed 133 people including 93 in the brewery and 40 administrative staff. In 1962 Warwick’s and Richardson’s were taken over by John Smith’s, Tadcaster Brewery Co Ltd and ceased brewing in 1966. This brewery was designed by William Bliss Sanders of South Kensington and was built by Baines of Newark.

EIIR (Post Office) pillar box. The Post Office has now become a snacks outlet. On the corner of Currie Road, it will of course do you Chilli and Rice!

In a relatively untouched terrace, one homeowner has bucked the trend. Unusually, most of the original chimney pots remain in situ.

One of three date stones built into the eastern facade of the former Northgate Brewery buildings http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3136221, chronicling the stages of development.

This was formerly part of the North Gate Depot of John Smiths Brewery.

The entrance to the 1980s office block on Northgate. The building has been converted to retail and residential use. Listed Grade II.

Typical mid-19th century polychrome brickwork. The foundation stone is dated 21 May 1868. The current church uses the former Sunday School, the original church having been converted to residential use.