The closure announcement was made after four years of talks between the brewery and St Helens Council. Greenall's lorry c.1955(Image: St Helens Archive Service)The brewery's central location near a planned redevelopment zone was stated as the reason for the closure. Thomas Greenall had founded what was originally called the St Helens Brewery in Hall Street in 1762. Unlike the glass and coal industries in St Helens, Greenall's was never a huge employer – but still around 200 brewery jobs were affected by the closure. Stephen Wainwright's latest book The Hidden History Of St Helens Volume 5 is available from the St Helens Book Stop and The World of Glass and online from Amazon and eBay with free delivery.