Phoenix Brewery
This is the Phoenix Brewery building, which is on Green lane, Heywood, near Heywood Station on the East Lancashire Railway. The brewery was founded in 1874, but as the date on the building suggests, it expanded in 1898. It was sold to the Coirnbrook Brewing Company in 1939, but retained its name, and was eventually bought by Bass, only to be shut down in 1960. In 1982 the Oak Brewing Company was established on an industrial estate in Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. In 1989 that company made the move to the old brewery building and in 1991 took on the name displayed on the building. Apparently the brewery is not open to visitors, which is a shame, since the building looks an interesting one, built around the traditional gravity-driven method by which malt and hops go in at the top of the tower and beer comes out at the bottom.
