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[es]Park Royal Guinness Brewery
| Type | Country | Date | On the Map | Status | Rating |
 Factory |  United Kingdom | 2006-02-18 |  | Demolished | *** |
Site panoramic- Click to enlarge!
Cheers!
This huge brewery was in operation from 1936 to 2005, to be finally delocalized to Dublin. Only the marketing department remains in London in an ultra-modern building nearby.
Built by the famous English architect Giles Gilbert Scott, author of -among others- the famous Battersea Power Station, this brewery is organized into massive buildings linked between each others by aerial bridges.
Site panoramic- Click to enlarge!
The succession of the buildings follow the production process.
Malt & hop store, brewery, fermentation house, then vathouse and kegging plant and finally bottling plant.
The site even had its own power station, incredibly beautiful site completely untouched.
But also we managed to explore: labs, silos, rooftops, demolition machines, offices, radio room, hair salon... A king-size urban exploration in an incredible place, protected from vandalism...
i used to drive tankers for guiness a few years back and regularly delivered trailers on permanent nights to and from park royal to guinness warrington. my enduring memory of the place was the full ala carte staff resturant resembling a swanky top london resturant where several full chefs were on duty twenty four hours a day and you could order as much as you liked of anything you desired and was all totally free !, they would even assemble meals in boxes for the drivers to take with them on the run home.....happy days it saddened me greatly the day they announced it was to close.
I WAS THE PIPEFITTER /WELDER IN CHARGE OF THIS CONTRACT BACK IN 1968. THE COMPANY I WAS WORKING FOR AT THE TIME WAS FOSTER POWER PIPING. I HAD TO TAKE A WELDING TEST FOR THIS CONTRACT AND THE TEST PIECES WERE SENT TO BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY FOR TESTING.AFTER PASSING THE TEST I STARTED THE CONTRACT
AND WAS FINISHED AFTER 6 WEEKS. TEMPERATURES IN THE BOILER ROOM AT THE HEIGHT WE WERE WORKING WERE
120 DEG F. IT WAS HARD GOING, BUT I WAS JUST A YOUNG GUY OF 28 BACK THEN.
ED ANDREWS. 13th MARCH.2009
Thinking about the possibility of sending my c.v. to Guinness once again, and thus, trying to find the brewery location in London I found this.. watching at the photos of the different rooms completely empty, the tanks unassembled, the corridors full of dust and stones... I suddenly realized that I was sad.. I felt butterflyes in my stomach. Iīm currently working in a Heineken brewery in Spain and its so full of life that just imaging... I have worked olso in Saint James Gate and, as I have allready read, its gonna happen the same to them... ITīS A REAL PITTY!!!!
@ Lia
The old Guiness-Brewery-building on the pics was situated in London, in an industrial area called Royal Park. The production of Guiness has moved to Dublin, to St. James Gate. So you wonīt find this building in Dublin.
I'm going to Dublin in the next months, anyone know if the building still exists ?
thanks so much for sharing!!
I had the pleasure of working at Park Royal 12 years ago to install the large mosaic in the new brewhouse and I had the sad task of removing it prior to demolition. The Old Brewhouses were being demolished while I was there and it was a sorry sight.