{"id":576,"date":"2011-02-28T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T13:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2013-11-16T23:42:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T23:42:25","slug":"mcewans-fountain-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/industrial\/mcewans-fountain-brewery\/","title":{"rendered":"McEwan’s Fountain Brewery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The brewery that refuses to die! Reports of this brewery’s demise have been going on for years, but it’s still here – not for all that much longer, though, they definitely are demolishing it this time \"\"<\/p>\n

So good to go back for another look. The brewhouse is being dismantled, and quite a bit is screened off for asbestos removal, but there’s some nice blue tankage left.<\/p>\n

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For just a place to have fun exploring, McEwan’s is hard to beat – lots to climb, lots of staircases and ladders, and lots and lots of tunnels – going under several public roads to different sites. Plus, it has some excellent control rooms:<\/p>\n

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Switchgear rooms:<\/p>\n

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And funky blue tiling:<\/p>\n

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Across the road, demolition is progressing:<\/p>\n

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But there is a second control room:<\/p>\n

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And a third:<\/p>\n

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The brewery that refuses to die! Reports of this brewery’s demise have been going on for years, but it’s still here – not for all that much longer, though, they definitely are demolishing it this time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industrial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/5484956967_d080927138_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3yGoo-9i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/catchingphotons.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}