The Brewery

The Brewery is known as the capital’s ultimate event space, and has hosted various events from government conferences to star-studded charity events.  It’s versatility along with the choice of six amazing rooms, caters for 10 to 1000 people and combines 18th century architecture with modern technology.

The Brewery is situated on the site of the former Whitbread brewery in East London.  Samuel Whitbread, having bought property in the area in 1750, moved his operations to Chiswell Street from his 2 smaller breweries in Old Street and Brick Lane.

It didn’t take long for Whitbread’s brewery to become a vast operation and its sheer size made it a worthy attraction and was visited by royalty such as George III, Queen Charlotte, Queen Elizabeth II and Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

The Brewery was a fully functioning brewery until April 1976 when the last tanker pulled out of the South Yard ending a 225-year era.

The Brewery has a lot of interesting facts in history, one being that the founder’s son, Samuel Whitbread II, cut his own throat from ear to ear in 1815, due to his anxieties of the decline of the brewery.  The Whitbread Brewery was effectively saved by John Martineau in 1812 when he amalgamated his own brewery with Whitbread and then he was found dead in 1834 in a yeast trough.  The verdict was that he ‘died by the visitation of God’.  Interesting!