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Page Updated:- Sunday, 07 March, 2021.
LIST BREWERIES Paul Skelton

 

 Eastry Brewery

 

Mill Lane

Eastry

Eastry Brewery 1905

The above picture is of the Eastry Brewery circa 1905.

The caption on this postcard said:-

Don't let beer get the best of you,

But get the best of beer,

And if you want it better than best,

You will always find it here.

 

The Brewery was established about 1840 by John  Bowes run as a family business until at least 1898. The premises ceased brewing in 1924 and was later built on or near to the Eastry Hospital in Mill Lane.

Between 1898 and 1924 it had been owned by an Owen Clark in 1902 and later taken over by Leonard Alston Fawsett from Findley's brewery, Leeds. Thomas Neville Cheatle was owner by 1912 and Top and Co. by 1922.

 

From an email received 6 January 2012.

In 1841* John Stubbington Levesque appears in the Census as aged 30 and living on Lower Street, Eastry, and working as a brewer. (He's my third cousin five times removed.)

More interestingly for you he was the eldest son of another brewer, Jean Levesque (1781-1851), sometime 'Brewer & Manager for Messrs. Mackeson of Hythe, Kent,' and the grandson of another Jean Levesque (1758-1831) who was a far more well-known brewer, once of the "Three Tuns" brewhouse, St John St, Bethnal Green, and writer of a highly regarded technical book on brewing and brewhouse manufacture.

All were of Huguenot background, the family originally seeking religious refuge in the UK from the late c17th.

* A year after it was founded. Might John have been among the founders?

Rick Glanvill.

 

 

Further details hopefully to follow

 

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