It always perks your interest when your hometown starts appearing in national press for random reasons.

For some strange reason, it’s only just bubbled up to some journo’s interest that – in one of those fascinating facts – an old Brewery was taken apart brick by brick and moved to North Korea.

I must admit I was sort of expecting to see it replicated in the same layout that it was in it’s previous form, in a sort of museum artifact way, but sadly not. The thought of being able to walk past a factory in the far east which resembled did give me a giggle.

Anyway, you can find more details about this at the following links

Daily Mail – North Ko-beer! The Wiltshire brewery bought for £1.5 million in 2000 and shipped piece by piece to Pyongyang is hailed by Kim Jong Un’s regime ‘for contributing to national economic development’

Wiltshire Times – Dissasembled brewery now making very strong beer in North Korea

The Telegraph – North Korea honours brewery shipped brick by brick from Britain

A Wiltshire brewery works that was completely dismantled and shipped to North Korea has been hailed by the secretive country for boosting its economy.

The former Ushers Brewery factory in Trowbridge was bought by Korean officials for £1.5 million in 2000 after the 175-year-old firm collapsed and went out of business.

It was totally dismantled and rebuilt in the reclusive country’s capital Pyongyang – using 20,000 kegs to hold the new Korean beers being produced.