Whitbread Luton

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Whitbread Luton, Oakley Road, Luton, Bedfordshire

Flowers 6.jpg|The brewery in the 1970s

This massive new brewery was opened by Whitbread & Co. Ltd in May 1969.

When Oakley Road opened, News from Whitbreads stated "The new Whitbread Brewery at Luton is the largest fully-automated brewery in Europe. The brainchild of Colonel W H Whitbread, Chairman of the Company, it is the first complete major brewery, capable of producing a variety of beers, to be built in Britain for over 30 years".

The opening of this brewery resulted in the closure of J W Green's (Flowers Breweries Ltd) brewery in the centre of Luton.

In June 1984, Whitbread News announced the plant's closure, just fifteen years after it opened.