It is one of Nottinghamshire's most distinctive buildings
The Home Brewery building on Mansfield Road, Daybrook is one of the more distinctive buildings in Nottingham and it has a long history as a brewery. Home Ales and Shipstone's were two of the most prominent Nottingham city brands but sadly neither is around today.
Plans for the brewery were drawn up in 1938 by Nottingham architect Cecil Howitt who had also designed many of the pubs which were owned by the brewery. Building work began the same year but was put on hold after the second world war broke out. It wasn't just beer that the brewery produced as they also made Apollo soft drinks which were produced at the rear of the building. They made orange and cola-flavoured fizzy drinks until the mid-90s.
Steve said: "People were either a Home Ales drinker or Shipstone's drinker and people were very loyal to the two. This continued until Scottish & Newcastle took them over and closed it down. The beers were brewed for a while by other companies until they stopped producing beers with that name. Shipstone's was taken over by a bigger Northern Brewery."
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