New guide for former pubs and breweries in Wokingham launched – Wokingham.Today

The Wokingham Society has announced a new publication to follow on its popular Blue Plaque Trail Guide. Society committee member and chair of the Berkshire South-East branch of the Campaign for Real Ale, Kevin Lenton, has produced Wokingham town centre’s Closed Pubs and Breweries Trail.

This booklet sets out a walking trail describing, with accompanying pictures, 27 pubs and breweries that have since closed and been replaced by other occupants or buildings.

For example, The Half Moon was an 18thC alehouse in Broad Street on the site now housing the Royal Mail Sorting Office; the Eagle Brewery, which operated in the first half of the 19thC, was situated in Peach Street where you can now find Snappy Snaps.

The trail starts and ends with two pubs still very much in business: The Queen’s Head on the Terrace at the west end of town and The Crispin in Denmark Street.

Copies of the booklet are available, free of charge, from the town council’s Information Centre in Market Place and the library in the Carnival hub.