Kimberley Brewery

[1] William & Thomas Hardy were successful beer merchants from Heanor who bought Samuel Robinson's brewery in 1857.

[2] In 2006, The Hardys & Hansons Kimberley Brewery and all of its public houses were sold in a multi-million-pound deal to Greene King brewery with a promise to the locals employed there that they would continue brewing, they backtracked on the promise and at first made it a distribution hub before selling it off to property speculators.

The distribution centre (circa 1980s), located to the rear of the courtyard, has been demolished along with a red brick loading bay.

The grain tanks to the side of the brewery have also been taken down and all concrete surfaces or roads to the rear of the site have been demolished.

The black bridge as seen on the second photo down will remain along with the tower, brew house, malt kilns and storage warehouse.