B IS FOR BEER Traditional Cache
NoOfTheBeast: Archiving as I don't really Cache anymore :(
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Some of my caches will take you to points of reading where i have found facts about the area which i would like to share with every one
Reading has historically been famous for the 3 B's. These were items that the Town produced.
The Simonds brewery was founded in Broad Street in Reading by William Blackall Simonds in 1785 (although his father had a brewing arm of his malting business as early as 1760). The company moved to Seven Bridges Street where it remained until 1978. The site is now occupied by The Oracle shopping centre. Simonds became a very early limited company in 1885, taking the name of H & G Simonds from William's two sons, Henry and George. The latter was the father of a later director, George Blackall Simonds, a sculptor. In 1960, the brewery amalgamated with Courage & Barclay to become Courage, Barclay, Simonds & Co Ltd until simplified to Courage Ltd in 1970. As Scottish Courage, they operated from the Berkshire Brewery on the borders of Reading and Shinfield, until it closed in March 2010.
The cache is very close to Simonds' brewery malthouse, now apartments
take a while to look about the site and see all the remainder of the brewery inc brick building the former stable block of Simonds' Brewery, now a restaurant and The track of the old railway once a link from Reading central goods depot.
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