EPW000882 ENGLAND (1920). View over Abingdon from Fitzharris House, Abingdon, from the north-west, 1920

County Hall. Abingdon, 30/03/2016

The New Malting in the Vineyard area of Abingdon for Messers

Thomas & co ltd of Abingdon, Leamington and Wolverhampton, were opened on 15th December 1903.The new premises consisted

of two 100 quarter mailtings to the design of Birmingham based

(JOHN D.WOOD MAILTING and BREWING ENGINEERS).

The present mailtings are connected to the new premises by bridges to facilitate the working arrangements.Building no.3

had three growing floors, of angular shape arranged specilly to suit the new Builing no.4 which had two growing floors had its main front alongside the railway siding.

Messers, NALDER & NALDER Ltd of Wantage supplied the whole of the machinery for building no.3 and no.4.

The two new mailtings were sited in the Vineyard because of the convenience of the Abingdon Railway Lines.But the area had been the location of others in the 18th century and probably much earlier. Two Abbey Mailtings,had beloned by 1790

to John Francis Spenlove of The Abbey Brewery who married Susanna Morland a cousin of Mr Edward Morland of the Eagle Brewery in Ock street Abingdon Berks. On the site of Thompsons

Mailtings in the Vineyard, operated by Samuel Thompson & sons,Ltd, part of Associated British Mailsters were opened on the 11th March 1964. In 1980 ABM sold Abingdon and Pontefract

mailtings to Watney's Brewery which enabled Watney's to shut there own floor mailtings to make room for more brewing space.

Sadley Abingdon Mailtings closed, ending Hundreds of years Mailting in Abingdon going back to the Romans.