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Originally Baker's Brewery, it became known as The Wokingham Brewery late in the 19th century.
By this time it had acquired at least four public houses, the Crooked Billet, the Crown, The Hope and

Anchor and the Railway Hotel.

In 1857 it opened The Shades, a public house, at the front.

In 1901 Rosalind Baker was the owner.

It was sold to Brakspears in 1914, but they only wanted its tied properties and the brewery itself

closed down early in the 1914-18 war.

From: Wokingham – A Pictorial History / J&R Lea
1901 to 2011

Although the building on the corner (what was The Shades alehouse) is still recognisable, down the

passage way there are now new office developments where the brewery itself was located.