All Saints Brewery

I first visited this place in 2009 as part of a photography project at college then twice more. Even after visiting once a week for 3 weeks there was always noticeable changes. This place would take hours to explore and i got some great shots! Over the past year I've been walking past and seeing how its changing so much. The roof has gone completely off a couple of buildings completely that overlooked the courtyard and there's signs that a few people live there. I'd just like to know if anyone has any information on it? I've researched on line many times but i don't seem to find alot :/

THE TYPICAL GRAFFITTI

MANY BROKEN WINDOWS

MOST WINDOWS COMPLETLEY MISSING GLASS

THE STARTING POINT

PILES OF RUBBLE IN THE COURTYARD

ALWAYS REMINDS ME OF A SCENE FROM SAW

pics or it never happened

Which one?

I'm going to guess you mean the one in Leicester?

This links brings up as the first result some handy info.

The collapsed roof is due to a fire in Nov 2010. Google is your friend, don't be scared

The brewery probably existed as early as the 1790's. In the 1820's/30's a Robert Birkley was listed as a brewer, malster & spirit merchant, and by January 1843 Gibbon & Company had taken ownership of the brewery. From the 1840's until the 1890's the brewery ownership changed so many times its really too confusing to post it all here! The All Saints Brewery Company Ltd was registered on 30th September 1896, with offices in Silver Street. It was set up to run the Langmore & Bankart brewery and Watts & Sons wine and spirits. In 1925 the country trade consisted of some 57 pubs and 2 off-licences. By 1926 they had sold the remaining brewing plant for £300 and were letting out part of the brewery. In March 1929 they arranged to withdraw the excise entries as beer dealers at 103 Highcross Street, and in April the entire tied estate of 81 pubs was leased to Ind Coope for 21 years. In October 1946 the Brewery buildings were finally sold.

After the brewery connection ended the buildings were used by various companies. There were a few knitware companies, I remember one called English Rose and another was Colorknit. There was an engineering type company at the back of the site, but unfortunately I cant remember the name now. The Hockey Warehouse had a big chunk of the place, they still exist on Frog Island. The buildings facing the street used to be some arts and craft type place I think, and may have been a beauty salon there too if I remember correctly! Think it was about 2008 when the developers stripped the place out and smashed holes in the listed buildings to make them unstable. After that it was just left and only then did the tramps move in, but Im pretty sure they had cleared off before the fires happened. Although homeless people got the blame for the fires its pretty obvious who did it really, and a real shame they get away with it!


Early view of the brewery


The Pied Bull public house at the front of the brewery


Trade directory ad

It appears that the chappies at 28 days have already had a good look around

nelly1967 said:

It appears that the chappies at 28 days have already had a good look around

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If you mean myself and some of the Leicester lot, I take offence to being called 'chappies at 28 days'

Thanks guys for your help I'm new to all this still finding the site a little confusing so i'll try and put up pictures soon

Not much left of this place now by the looks of things -last time i was nearby- diggers etc on site knocking parts down from the recent fires

Goldie87 said:

If you mean myself and some of the Leicester lot, I take offence to being called 'chappies at 28 days'

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Ahhhh, sorry Goldie, I just assumed that you were a chappie

Sometimes it's hard to determine the gender of a person in a photo where the faces are blurred out

Seriously though, there are some quality photos on that report and are you still wearing the Roo's trainers???

Nelly

nelly1967 said:

Ahhhh, sorry Goldie, I just assumed that you were a chappie

Sometimes it's hard to determine the gender of a person in a photo where the faces are blurred out

Seriously though, there are some quality photos on that report and are you still wearing the Roo's trainers???

Nelly

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he is a chappie....

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Haha just to confirm I am male, it was the 28 days bit that was offensive! I've not got any roo's, but pairs did vanish so a few people must be walking around Leicester in them

Ah I see, Sorry I'm new to this but I detect a bit of Urbex rivalry

I've been mooching through your stuff, Christ you've been some places!!!

Your Brecon & Radnor Asylum are stunning btw

Cheers.

Nelly

enjoy what we share

LadyAymee thanks for posting

Looks like all thats needed now is a fleet of skips.

Goldie OMG How funny .
ive never seen some ones sex change so quickly & then back again.
You must be relieved,quite traumatic,LOL

Great info & as for developers lets not go there
Too many back handers & sweetners,the SCUM of us all and i bet they've all got roo's


SK

nelly1967 said:

I've been mooching through your stuff, Christ you've been some places!!!

Your Brecon & Radnor Asylum are stunning btw

Cheers.

Nelly

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Thanks

skeleton key said:

Great info & as for developers lets not go there
Too many back handers & sweetners,the SCUM of us all and i bet they've all got roo's


SK

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I think they dumped most of the contents of the buildings in the yard and had a bonfire a few years back, including the remaining Roo's!

nelly1967 said:

Ah I see, Sorry I'm new to this but I detect a bit of Urbex rivalry

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I can't speak for Goldie, but I guess it's not so much rivalry as not wanting to be associated with those rogues.

I like the photos, I take it you use a film camera and a narrow lens? It makes them look like they were taken 40 years ago - in a good way. The deviantART watermarks are a bit annoying though, could you host them elsewhere?

lost said:

I like the photos, I take it you use a film camera and a narrow lens? It makes them look like they were taken 40 years ago - in a good way. The deviantART watermarks are a bit annoying though, could you host them elsewhere?

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I've got plenty more there just on my broken laptop and my sd cards round a mates! Yeahh it was quite a fast film because of the lighting and developed by myself in the darkroom ahh good college days! so i just grabbed them off deviant when i figured out how to post pics i'll try and sort it all out once i get more used to this