![]() Austin Hanna was our sales manager at the time - he'd been with Wigoder's in Talbot Street, which is long gone now. Sitting in a room over the shop, sash windows of what used be a Weir family drawingroom overlooking the street, Roland Brocklesby, a man who calls a spade a spade, says Curust bought Weirs "because we needed the dry storage space behind the shop. It took 20 years, and Curust Industries Ltd, for it to return to its original way of life. A year later, in 1957, the landmark hardware/ironmongers became a supermarket. With no one to carry it on, the shop closed. He had 12 children, seven of them boys and all of whom, in their time, worked in the landmark shop with its distinguishing front bow window.įifteen years after he'd set up, as the 20th century kicked off, William was joined by one of his sons and the company became William Weir & Son.Īnd so the company went, run by the Weir family through the first half of that turbulent century until, in 1956, William Charles Weir (born in 1891) died. William Weir, then just 27 years old, took over and opened for business as William Weir, Ironmonger and Sanitary Engineer. The consultation period for the proposals started on August 23 and Reading Borough Council has yet to make a decision about the application.The Weir story has a sort of beginnings in 1791 when Richard Lord, Viscount Fitzwilliam, gave one Thomas Carroll Esq permission to build the four-storey building at 21 Upper Baggot Street. In total, this means that there will be 29 flats altogether and to accommodate this there will be 14 parking spaces. There was talk about reducing this to five storeys, but this didn't materialise.Īll in all, the applicant wants to create 22 one-bedroom flats, six two-bedroom flats, and one three-bedroom flat. ![]() Altogether the flats will reach six storeys high. They also welcomed the retention of the majority of the malthouse buildings.Ī CGI of the plan to replace Drews the Ironmongers in Caversham Road, Reading with a 29 home apartment block (Image: Copyright Unknown)īTA did however express concern about the height of the new development. The BTA suggested the new plans presented a marked improvement compared to the old ones. ![]() The design team had a site meeting with the BTA in May in order to discuss the proposals. Meanwhile, the building facing Northfield Road will be maintained. The new proposals show the southern building that faces Caversham Road will be demolished and part of the corner building that faces Caversham Road and Northfield Road will also be lost. The rustic buildings once formed a brewery and in the past few years the Bell Tower Community Association (BTA) successfully appealed to get the site locally listed as a heritage asset. New plans from S2 Caversham Ltd have now been lodged and they show that a lot more of the malthouse buildings will be retained compared to earlier proposals. READ MORE: Police statement after Reading Festival violence and tents set on fire ![]() S2 Caversham has revised its plans for the building that used to be 'Drews the Ironmongers' - following a previous rejection.ĭrew the Ironmongers, located at 71-73 Caversham Road in Reading, closed back in 2018 and At the time, the Drew family said that it could no longer compete in a "world dominated by internet merchants."įollowing its closure, several plans have been submitted to turn the site into new homes None of these proposals has so far come to fruition. A former ironmongers in Reading could be partially demolished in order to make way for 29 new homes. ![]()
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