Kent Town Brewery

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Kent Town Brewery was a brewery in Kent Town, a suburb adjacent to the city of Adelaide on its eastern side, in South Australia. Its original name was Logue's Brewery, after its first proprietor.

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Kent Town Brewery
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Logue's Brewery / Kent Town Brewery
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1856–1876 tentative location based on flood descriptions
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1876–1888 then SA Brewing Co.
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Two views of Kent Town Brewery c. 1876, corner Rundle Street and Dequetteville Terrace Kent Town Brewery c 1876.jpg
Two views of Kent Town Brewery c. 1876, corner Rundle Street and Dequetteville Terrace

The brewery was founded on King William Street, Kent Town near First Creek in 1856 by Capt. Henry Spencer Crawford ( – 14 November 1861), [lower-alpha 1] and Edward Logue. Their partnership was dissolved in July 1857. [1] Crawford appears to have been in charge of setting up the process. [2] The brewery was from the start known as "Logue's Brewery", he being both proprietor and brewer. Logue had earlier been involved in the Halifax Street Brewery as a financial partner in W. H. Clark & Co. [3]

In March 1862 the brewery and the adjacent house, occupied by Logue and his family, was destroyed by fire. This was followed in August by a flood, which swept two of his men, who were working to protect the building, into the culvert under King William Street, and one was drowned. [4] The brewery was back in action early in 1863. [5]

Sometime around 1860 he took Edwin Thomas Smith on as a partner. Logue died in 1865; his will would be the subject of a legal dispute. [6] Smith continued operating the business, which he renamed Kent Town Brewery, and two years later was its proprietor. [7] The cellars were enlarged in 1868. [8]

Kent Town was subjected to another major flooding in July 1873, which did considerable damage to nearby properties, but apart from minor incursion into the cellars and some undercutting of the foundations the brewery was unaffected.

Smith contracted Thomas English as architect for new premises, completed in 1876 at the nearby corner of Rundle Street and Dequetteville Terrace. Brown & Thompson were the builders. He also had nine workmen's cottages built at the rear of the premises by contractor Dickin. [9]

1888 takeover

In 1888 the South Australian Brewing, Malting, and Wine and Spirit Company (later South Australian Brewing Company) was formed to take over the assets of The Kent Town Brewery, West End Brewery and Rounsevell & Simms's wine and spirit business. [10]

Edward Logue's family

  • Ellen Logue (26 November 1852 – 16 February 1921) married Edward Pariss "Paris" Nesbit, QC (1852–1927) on 9 December 1874
  • George Edward Logue (1856 – 1902) married Lavinia Rankin ( – 1921), sister of Oliver Rankin in 1879
  • Herbert William Logue (1883–1954) married Hazel Lilian Playford (1890–1968) in 1919. Hazel was great-granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Playford
  • Eveline May Logue (1885– ) married Jessel Rupert Cohen ( – 1948) in 1904. They divorced four years later; [12] she married again to Robert Oliver Day in 1927
  • Myra Lilian Logue (1887– ) married John Harold Pellew ( – ) in 1920
  • William Henry Logue (1860– )
  • Annie Jane Logue (1863–1935) married Oliver James Rankin ( – ) in 1887 He was a brother of Lavinia above.
  • Sarah Louisa Logue (1865–1942)

Building conversion

The malt towers of the old Kent Town Brewery have now been turned into luxury apartments overlooking the Adelaide Park Lands and Adelaide city centre. [13]

Other breweries

Other breweries operating in the late 1860s included: [14]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Family relationship (if any) between Henry Spencer Crawford and E. J. F. Crawford of Hindmarsh Brewery has not yet been found.

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References

  1. ↑ "Advertising". South Australian Register . Vol. XXI, no. 3358. South Australia. 10 July 1857. p. 1. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Beer Coolers". Adelaide Times . Vol. XI, no. 1972. South Australia. 29 January 1857. p. 2. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Advertising". South Australian Register . Vol. XVIII, no. 2446. South Australia. 24 July 1854. p. 1. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "The Floods". South Australian Register . Vol. XXVI, no. 4933. South Australia. 13 August 1862. p. 2. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "The Kent Town Brewery". South Australian Register . Vol. XXVII, no. 5072. South Australia. 26 January 1863. p. 7. Retrieved 2 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "Law Courts". The Express and Telegraph . Vol. XV, no. 4, 437. South Australia. 1 November 1878. p. 3. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "E. T. Smith, M.P., Mayor of Adelaide". The Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal . Vol. XVII, no. 1751. South Australia. 30 July 1881. p. 1. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "Our Breweries No. III". The South Australian Advertiser . Vol. X, no. 3003. South Australia. 30 May 1868. p. 2. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "The Kent Town Brewery". The Illustrated Adelaide News . Vol. II, no. 21. South Australia. 1 July 1876. p. 7. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ "The Week". South Australian Weekly Chronicle . Vol. XXX, no. 1, 541. South Australia. 3 March 1888. p. 11. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  11. ↑ "Death Of Mr. L Logue". The Chronicle (Adelaide) . Vol. 95, no. 5, 391. South Australia. 16 April 1953. p. 9. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ "A Divorce Suit". The Advertiser (Adelaide) . Vol. L, no. 15, 343. South Australia. 20 December 1907. p. 10. Retrieved 3 March 2018– via National Library of Australia.
  13. ↑ "Former brewery, Kent Town, SA". Catalyst Design. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  14. ↑ "The breweries of Adelaide and its suburbs". South Australian Register . Vol. XXXII, no. 6729. South Australia. 1 June 1868. p. 3. Retrieved 13 December 2020– via National Library of Australia.
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