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The story of No. 51 2015 to 2020

Ironworks Supply Co.

An Australian-style café bar with its own clothing corner, opened in seven weeks and three days in the summer of 2015.

Ironworks Supply Co. after it closed, August 2021
Ironworks Supply Co. after it closed, August 2021 (2021-08-01) Mr Ignavy , CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Ironworks Supply Co. opened on Friday 10 July 2015. Its owners, Buster and Jackie, had spent eight years in Australia and came home to Bristol with a clear idea of the café they wanted. They had turned the space around in seven weeks and three days.

It was a café and bar. At the back was a corner selling clothing from Deus Ex Machina, the Australian brand founded by Dare Jennings of Mambo, which Ironworks hoped to make its biggest stockist in the UK. They were also the only UK distributors of Di Lorenzo coffee, roasted in Sydney.

A premises licence was transferred to the new business in 2015. Ironworks closed in 2020.

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A coffee and an email at NetGates in 1996, a haircut at Wild At Heart, brunch at Ironworks, or a desk in the offices upstairs: if you have a photo or a story about No. 51 or its neighbours, from any decade, we would love to see it.

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