Redevelopment of Brick Lane

The New London Brewery of Truman, Hanbury & Buxton & Co. Ltd, Brick Lane

Published in 1969

The beginning of this year marked not only the start of a decade. but also, for Trumans, the start of the reconstruction of the London Brewery; for on January 5th, work began.

Since this time, it has been remarked in the brewery that it looked as though what is taking place had been planned; this indeed is so, and the start of actual construction marks only one point in a continuing process.

The following sequence of photographs projects the planning process forward to show you what the final result will look like, and records the progress up to the time that this magazine went to press.

The front plan is a map of the area, and will give you an indication of the relative position of the development sites to the existing brewery.

For convenience these sites are marked A, B, C, and D. As work has not yet started on Site B, only the other three sites are included in this supplement.

The building constructed on Site A is a complete brewery, to include Liquor Handling, Malt storage, brew house and fermenting sections; that on Site B will be a Cold Store; that on Site C will be a draught beer production plant and storage area; and that on Site D is the main engine room.

Concurrently with the work on site, the many thousands of items of plant, which make the building into a brewery. are being made in factories all over the world. This plant ranges from large items like fermenting vessels and storage tanks down to the smallest components of electrical equipment.

Amongst the following series of pictures you will see the first of the many plant items that will be installed over the succeeding months.