Kemp Town Brewery Ltd

A fire at the brewery in 1907. Courtesy Roger Corbett

More illustrations of the fire

Ordnance Survey extract from 1909. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (http://maps.nls.uk/index.html)

Playing card

St James's Tavern, Brighton: courtesy Roy Denison

Jolly Brewers, Worthing

Kemp Town Brewery (Brighton) Ltd, Bristol Brewery, 6 Seymour Street, Brighton, East Sussex

Founded before 1833. William Hallett's Bristol Brewery. Hallett was in partnership with Henry Abbey from 1854, and when Hallett died in 1862 the business passed into the hands of the Abbey family.

In 1899, they acquired H B Longhurst & Son's Brighton brewery.
In 1914, Young & Rawley Ltd of Eastbourne became bankrupt and was acquired.
They acquired J Dudney, Sons & Co of Portslade in 1919 and the brewery and several public houses were resold to Smithers & Sons Ltd.
Harry Chapman's Tower Brewery, Worthing was acquired in 1924 and was closed in 1926.

Registered March 1933 to acquire Abbey's Kemp Town Brewery Ltd. Acquired by Charrington & Co. Ltd. with 236 houses in 1954 and brewery vacated 1964-65. The brewery has been demolished and replaced by blocks of flats.

List of Kemp Town Brewery Ltd pubs
More information about the company and other Brighton breweries is available from the Brighton & Hove website: : [[1]]

Images of the brewery

Hallett & Abbey 1866. An early example of British 'Bavarian' beer. Note the Dolphin trade mark.
Hallett & Abbey 1878
The maltings
The maltings
The maltings
The brewery in 1950
The maltings in 1960