About us

The Old Fire Station

The Old Fire Station cafe bar is a welcoming space designed with the whole community in mind and the Brewery, Bakery, Café & Bar have quickly become the heart of the evolving cultural quarter. As an integral part of the University of Salford, The Old Fire Station and Lark Hill Brewery will feature in academic and research programmes and help provide students with an innovative and real-world learning environment.

The Old Fire Station Cafe bar is a vibrant venue offering a great food from breakfast through to evening menus, barista served coffees, freshly baked sourdough breads, and of course great beer. There will be regular events including bread-making, meet-the-brewer, coffee tastings and more.

Strong Roots

We’re building on our rich heritage of brewing beer and baking bread. James Prescott Joule – physicist, mathematician and brewer – was based a few steps away from Lark Hill Brewery. The construction of Salford Technical College was funded to “distil wisdom out of whisky, genius out of gin, and capacity for business out of beer”. And baking was taught at the Royal Technical College until the 1960s!