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17-685: West End Brewery may refer to: West End Brewery (Hindley Street) , brewery founded in Adelaide in 1857, taken over by the South Australian Brewing Company in 1888 The premises in Hindley Street after the takeover by the South Australian Brewing Company The premises at 107 Port Road, Thebarton, after the sale of the Hindley Street building in 1980, later rebadged by

34-610: A complete rebuild of the theatre. The rebuilt house, costing about £20,000, was opened on 25 March 1878. In 1878, on the eve of the departure of Mr. and Mrs Chapman and their daughters Clara, Emily Fannie and Lily for a European holiday, he was presented by a throng of prominent citizens with a pair of diamond studs valued at £250 (perhaps $ 50,000 today), the work of J. M. Wendt . While on holiday he booked various acts for Australia, but with James Alison also leased Drury Lane for an Australian production of Henry V starring George Rignold , perhaps doing something to refute criticisms by

51-504: A consortium of Simms, Haimes, and Edgar Chapman founded the "West End Brewery" on the Hindley Street property, and invested heavily in establishing buildings, in cellar construction, and equipping the brewery with all the latest refinements. The location had the advantage of proximity to the Parklands (less smell nuisance), the Port Road (transport of raw materials and finished product) and

68-421: A new brewery on Town Acre 66 at the south side of Hindley Street , midway between Morphett Street and West Terrace . Noltenius found himself in financial difficulties, and neither Simms nor Clark could repay any of the £3,530 they collectively owed him, which resulted in his insolvency. Clark moved to Victoria in 1860, and thereby evaded his creditors, and probably died there some time before 1873. In 1859,

85-483: A tailor and draper of Kent , England, emigrated to South Australia with his wife Mary and their seven children aboard Rajah , arriving at Adelaide in April 1850. He founded a drapery on Hindley Street , at that time the premier business strip in the young city. His eldest son Edgar Chapman joined with W. K. Simms in 1865 as Simms & Chapman to operate West End Brewery , which Simms had purchased in 1861. The partnership

102-609: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages West End Brewery (Hindley Street) The building in Hindley Street, known as the West End Brewery, continued to be used by SA Brewing until its sale in 1980. The factory building on Port Road at Thebarton continues to be called the West End Brewery, owing to the large sign advertising West End beer, before and after its takeover by Lion . Sometime around 1844, William Henry Clark , an Irish immigrant to South Australia, founded

119-759: The Christian Colonist . He was for many years owner of Kallioota Station, of 102 square miles (260 km ), some 50 miles (80 km) north of Port Augusta , carrying 10,000 sheep and 800 cattle. Beside the Theatre Royal and Theatre Royal Hotel, other properties owned by Chapman in Hindley street were the Eagle Tavern and shops owned by Burns the tailor, McKenzie, Bristow, and Lipman. His sons Charles E. Chapman and Harry A. Chapman ran Mundowdna Station. They voluntarily declared insolvency in order to be relieved of

136-575: The Halifax Street Brewery ; an unwelcome addition to the neighbourhood due the odour and liquid discharged into Gilles Street. In July 1854 Clark, with partners J. B. Spence , J. H. Parr and Edward Logue , took over Crawford brothers' Hindmarsh Brewery in order to close it down and supply its customers from the Halifax Street brewery. The business continued however under E. J. F. Crawford. William Knox Simms and John Hayter operated

153-530: The Lion company as West End Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title West End Brewery . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_End_Brewery&oldid=1033858373 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

170-734: The Pirie Street Brewery (later Adelaide Brewery) from 1851 to 1855, when Hayter left the partnership. This brewery was also not popular with those living nearby. Simms took over the Halifax Street operation in March 1856, then in February 1858 Clark sold the property to Henry Noltenius . In July 1858, Noltenius took in Simms as a partner, then in November 1858 sold him his interest in the business. Clark meanwhile had borrowed money from John Haimes to build

187-571: The River Torrens (handy for discharge of effluent). By October 1859, W. H. Clark was advertising barrels of "West End Ale" for sale to publicans at £2/2s. They closed their smaller, competing establishments, which included the Halifax Street Brewery. Simms ran the business with help from Clark's brewer John Plummer Gardner. W. K. Simms bought the company in 1861; Chapman was his partner 1865–1879. An extensive contemporary description of

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204-621: The brewery was published in the South Australian Register in 1868. The West End Brewery proved highly profitable and Simms and Chapman became wealthy men. In 1888, Simms and Chapman joined forces with Edwin Smith , owner of Kent Town Brewery (formerly Logue's). A third enterprise, Ben Rounsevell 's wine and spirit business, joined to create the South Australian Brewing, Malting, Wine and Spirit Company . Rounsevell became

221-567: The building demolished in 1983), the company has, since 1993, been owned by Lion as the South Australian Brewing Company, and is due for closure in June 2021. Other breweries operating in the late 1860s included: Edgar Chapman Edgar Chapman (1831 – 11 September 1886) was a brewer and businessman in Adelaide , South Australia , closely associated with the Theatre Royal . James Chapman,

238-586: The debt they owed to their father. He died after three or four years of declining health, and his remains were interred at the West Terrace Cemetery . His estate was proved at £59,000 (perhaps $ 10 million today). His brother Arthur took over management of his estate, which included the Theatre Royal in Hindley Street, though he was acting for Edgar as early as 1883, In January 1885 he had joined Rignold and Allison as lessee and in December they withdrew from

255-409: The managing director of the company. This was the site of the famous "eight-hour drinking piss" session with Kerry_O'Keeffe and Rod Marsh before a 1976 match with Pakistan, as memorably recounted, in a typical after-dinner speech at a cricketers club anecdote that Skull is so famous for. After various other changes through the 20th century, including the closure of the Hindley Street site (with

272-452: The partnership, leaving Chapman as sole manager until Wybert Reeve became lessee in 1887. Arthur Chapman initiated extensive alterations in 1905 at a cost of over £4,000 and a rebuild of the theatre in 1913–1914 at a cost of £21,000. He was appointed Justice of the Peace 1877. He was interested in horse racing; served as a steward at the "Old Course" ( Victoria Park ). Chapman's affair with

289-523: Was dissolved in 1879. Chapman and Caleb Peacock were passengers on the steamer Auckland when she struck a reef between Cape Conran and Cape Everard , on 27 May 1871. The ship was lost but all aboard were rescued by the Macedon . Chapman invested in commercial property on fashionable Hindley Street. In October 1876 he purchased the Theatre Royal, its hotel and the adjoining shops for £11,000, and lost no time in appointing George R. Johnson architect for

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