A popular micro-brewery is expanding its brewing operation and creating a new tap house after demands for its beers soared over lockdown. Liam Convery and Ryan Bailey run Northern Monkey Brew Co., which has a popular bar in Nelson Square, Bolton town centre, with its own brewed beers growing steadily over that time. However, over lockdown, demand for the duos beer has soared as they follow in the footsteps of other popular local breweries, such as Rivington Brew Co., selling their beers across the country. This means the demand for Northern Monkey beers has started to outweigh their brewing capabilities in Nelson Square, leading the pair to expand their production.
Extensive road works in Portarlington for most of June confirmed by Laois council
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The impact of extensive road resurfacing in Portarlington during June should be minimised by the decision to complete the work in the evenings and at night.
Laois County Council s Senior Executive Engineer Philip McVeigh informed councillors that road resurfacing works will take place at night between 7 pm and 6 am from Monday, May 31 and will last for about three weeks.
The work commences at the Barrow Bridge on French Church Street and continues through the Market Square, along the Link Road to the junction at Bank of Ireland and up to the Kilnacourt Roundabout.
A POPULAR Bolton brewery is set to host its first beer festival in July. ‘Monkey in the Woods’ by Northern Monkey, which runs a bar in Nelson Square, Bolton, is to take place on July 3 as part of Bolton’s Beer and Cider week. The festival is to be hosted at Barrow Bridge car park, off Barrow Bridge Road, with half the tickets already sold for the event. A range of locally brewed beers, ciders and Bolton gin will be sold at the event, with live music and food also on offer. Thirty per cent of the proceeds from the event will be donated to The Woodlands Trust, Smithills Estate, to help them to continue preserving and maintaining the estate for years to come.
One of Lancashire’s oldest textile mills was being taken down stone by stone to be given a new lease of life a couple of miles across Bolton as a luxury housing development in November 1992. The former Holdsworth Brothers’ China Lane mill, off Higher Bridge Street, was built in 1820 but spinning had taken place on the site since the 1700s. Owners blamed the flood of cheap textile imports for the mill’s closure in April 1990. The fine Pennine gritstone was to be resurrected on a site off Barrow Bridge Road, opposite the Barrow Bridge chimney landmark
Jessamy Tavimba Funeka Etinosa Muswere-Enagbonma, died in Manchester Children’s Hospital on Thursday, January 23 last year. Police and paramedics had previously rushed to her home in Capitol Close in the Barrow Bridge area, on Sunday, January 19. An inquest in June revealed the four-month-old baby had died from brain damage caused by a cardiac arrest while sleeping in a prone position on a sofa. Now, her mother, Pauline, has revealed that she has been working hard on her fledgling care and employment business, named after her daughter, to give her something to concentrate on. Jessamy Staffing Solutions is a specialist employment business, which supplies care homes, hospitals and other healthcare clients in the north with registered nurses, healthcare assistants, support workers, domestic staff and more.