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Malt House Place, ROMFORD, RM1 1AR

Here is a view of Brewery Walk, a pleasant paved pedestrianised (there's a great piece of alliteration!) alley linking the Brewery car park and shops with the pedestrianised town centre thoroughfare. It is tree-lined down the middle and has circular benches which completely enclose the trees. It is also lit with some rather posh-looking lamp posts. I frequently stop here to eat my lunch (usually bought from nearby Greggs or Subway) when I come shopping here with my friends. I am, however, unsure if I have got the geographical location right - Romford town centre is so complex and full of paths and alleys, I just don't know exactly which alley on the OS map is Brewery Walk!

Romford Brewery closed in 1993, and most of the site was demolished and replaced with the Brewery shopping centre which opened in 2001. Some parts of the old brewery have survived, as shown here. Part of the building now serves as the Havering Museum, and much of the remainder has been converted into housing.

Apologies if the image size is too small for Geograph - I had to crop the top edge off using Picnik as I accidentally had my finger over part of the camera lens and it created a black splodge at the top of the image. I can resize the image if needed. The subject of the photo here is the lamp post - one of many which light the pedestrianised town centre. It is called an Urbis St Giles and is the sister of another Urbis lantern I have pictured on Geograph, the Albany, although it is not quite as common. This particular example is not in its best condition, however, as one lantern on the double bracket is missing, and the top lantern looks to have the bottom portion of its bowl missing! View taken from the end of Brewery Walk, although I'm unsure of the geographical location.

Looking north towards the Market Place from junction with Western Road

The old inn is situated at the western end of Romford Market.

Originally the Star Brewery, based behind The Star public house, which itself was founded in 1708. The brewery was bought by Edward Ind in 1799; the company was joined by the Coope family in 1845 becoming Ind Coope (now Allied Breweries). The company founded a second brewery in Burton-on-Trent in 1856, but brewing continued with Romford Brewery finally closing in 1993. When I was a child Romford was frequently perfumed by the strong smell of malted barley and hops (though this ceased a long time before 1993 with the introduction of more "modern" brewing processes).

The Museum http://www.haveringmuseum.org.uk/ is housed in the former Romford Brewery (Ind Coope [Allied Breweries]). From the mid twentieth century this Victorian Brewery was used as offices for a huge beer factory now replaced by a shopping mall.