29-539: The South Australian Brewing Company, Limited was a brewery located in Thebarton , an inner-west suburb of Adelaide , South Australia. It is a subsidiary of Lion , which in turn is owned by Kirin , a Japan-based beverage company. It manufactures West End Draught beer. The company was created in 1888 as the South Australian Brewing, Malting, and Wine and Spirit Company , from an amalgamation of
58-572: Is redeveloped. The artefacts in its on-site museum are being donated to the State Library of South Australia and other local institutions. Thebarton was part of the then largely rural District of West Torrens until 1883, when the residents of the more urban suburbs of Thebarton, Mile End and Torrensville successfully petitioned to become the Corporation of the Town of Thebarton . In 1997
87-564: Is within 2 km of the CBD, and is well serviced by trams. The West End Brewery chimney tower has been heritage-listed and will be preserved when the site is redeveloped. The tradition of painting the brewery chimney with the team colours of the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) premiership team began in 1954, when a West Adelaide player and employee Clarrie Cannon suggested painting
116-631: The Australian Football League in 1997, and is one of the sponsors of the "Slowdown" charity football match. Thebarton, South Australia Thebarton ( / ˈ θ ɛ b ər t ən / THEB -ər-tən ), formerly Theberton , on Kaurna land, is an inner-western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of West Torrens . The suburb is bounded by the River Torrens to the north, Port Road and Bonython Park to
145-730: The Kent Town Brewery , became chairman of the board and general manager of SA Brewing; Stock died in 1904 and Samuel Jacobs served from 1904 to 1937. Jacobs' son (later Sir) Roland Jacobs was managing director from 1948 to 1967. The black and red colours of the SA Brewing Company came about after the West Adelaide Football Club (whose colours are black and red) defeated Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) 1911 Grand Final, and defeated VFL premiers Essendon in
174-589: The Walkerville Co-operative Brewing Company Ltd , and its subsequent acquisition by the South Australian Brewing Company in 1939, it was renamed from Walkerville Brewery to Southwark Brewery in 1949 and the company's Walkerville Nathan beer was renamed Southwark beer in 1951. The brewery closed on 17 June 2021, with its landmark chimney tower heritage-listed , to be preserved when the site
203-618: The West End Brewery (in Hindley Street , Adelaide city centre ), the Kent Town Brewery , and the wine and spirit merchants Rounsevell & Simms. In 1938 the company took over the Walkerville Brewery , whose main site was at 107 Port Road, Thebarton (the original site of Torrenside Brewery established in 1886). The company's operations continued at its two breweries on Hindley Street and Thebarton, with
232-469: The Championship of Australia play-off at Adelaide Oval shortly afterwards in the same year. In 1927 T. A. Nation was the brewer and G. B. Bryant the general manager. His board of directors comprised S. J. Jacobs (later managing director), Sir Lancelot Stirling , K.C.M.G., Edward Fitzgerald, LL.D., and H. W. Morphett. The Walkerville Cooperative Brewery , which produced the popular Nathan beers,
261-673: The Hindley Street building. From 1949, the brewery was again renamed Southwark Brewery, administration was centralised at Hindley Street, and in November 1951 Walkerville's Nathan beer (Bitter) was renamed Southwark beer (Bitter). "Southwark Bitter" (actually a lager ) became the most well-known product. From 1955 operations were split between the company's two major factories, with the West End Brewery in Hindley Street making only draught beer in kegs ; bottled beer only
290-618: The Southwark Brewery in Thebarton, which was rebadged "West End". The old Hindley Street building was demolished in 1983, and in 1993, Lion Nathan took over the West End brands. Prior to the acquisition of the brewing assets by Lion Nathan in 1993, SA Brewing split its brewing assets into "SA Brewing Holdings", and its diversified operations were formed into a new listed company named Southcorp . One of Southcorp's major assets
319-679: The Thebarton site becoming known as the Nathan Brewery after the takeover in 1838, then again reverting to its former name, Southwark Brewery , before being rebadged the West End Brewery after the Hindley Street premises closed in 1980. The Thebarton brewery closed in June 2021. The South Australian Brewing Company was established in February 1888 as the South Australian Brewing, Malting, and Wine and Spirit Company by
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#1732783300599348-662: The Town of Thebarton re-amalgamated with the City of West Torrens. Thebarton has a significant Greek-Australian population and is the suburb with the largest Greek Australian population per capita in Australia . In fact, according to census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2001, the suburbs of Thebarton and neighbouring Torrensville together are home to 4,471 Greek-Australians; i.e., 18.7 per cent of
377-729: The Wheaty Brewing Corps was named Australia's best small brewery at the national Craft Beer Awards, and it has been inducted into the SA Music Hall of Fame . In 2021 it started selling its own beers in cans, to take away. Thebarton has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Thebarton is also the location of a stop on the Glenelg tram line . 34°54′S 138°34′E / 34.900°S 138.567°E / -34.900; 138.567 Frank Kenneth Milne Too Many Requests If you report this error to
406-518: The adjacent Thebarton Barracks of the South Australia Police actually lie within the northwestern Adelaide Park Lands . A part of Thebarton adjacent to the River Torrens , later the site of the South Australian Brewing Company , was originally known as Southwark . Hemmington , Hemmington West and West Thebarton were also suburbs later incorporated into current-day Thebarton . Prior to European settlement of South Australia ,
435-766: The amalgamation of Sir Edwin Thomas Smith 's Kent Town Brewery , William Knox Simms 's West End Brewery and the wine and spirit merchants Rounsevell & Simms (Ben Rounsevell and Alfred Simms). The managing directors of the new company were Robert Alfred Stock , Alfred Simms, and W. B. (Ben) Rounsevell. Provisional directors were Edwin Smith, W. K. Simms, W. B. Rounsevell, R. A. Stock, Alfred Simms, Charles H. T. Hart , and Frank Rymill of Adelaide, and Hon. N. Fitzgerald , John Robb , Malcolm McEacharn , John B. Watson , and John McIlwraith (brother of Thomas McIlwraith ), of Melbourne . The new company set about enlarging
464-624: The areas now known as Thebarton and Hindmarsh were called Karraundongga (meaning "red gum spear place") by the Kaurna people , who would craft spears from the red gum branches gathered on the banks of the Torrens there. The suburb of Thebarton was named after the home of Colonel William Light , the first Surveyor-General of the colony of South Australia, where he lived with his de facto wife Maria Gandy and her brothers. Light named his home after Theberton Hall of Suffolk, England , where he
493-546: The brewing facilities at West End and centring the malting work at Kent Town . It began a campaign of purchasing hotels freehold or leasehold, and by the end of the 1880s had a stranglehold on the Adelaide market, owning 44 hotels and leasing 65. In 1893 they sold off their wine and spirit business to A. E. & F. Tolley Pty Ltd and Milne & Co. , and the name was changed to South Australian Brewing Company, Limited. Robert Stock, Edwin Smith's brother-in-law and manager of
522-510: The chimney in the West Adelaide Football Club colours, red and black, as the West End Brewery (then still in Hindley Street) was located in their territory. General manager C. R. Aitken agreed, but only if West Adelaide was the winning team that year. However Port Adelaide Football Club coach and captain, Fos Williams , said that he expected his team to win, and the men agreed that if Port Adelaide won, their colours would be painted on
551-443: The chimney. Port Adelaide won that year , so the chimney was painted in black and white vertical stripes, but Williams suggested that a red stripe be painted below the black to honour the runners-up. The tradition of painting the colours of the premier and runners-up was maintained at the Hindley Street premises until its closure in 1980, before transferring to the Thebarton site, which was rebadged "West End". It continued there until
580-516: The east, Kintore Street to the south, and South Road to the west. Many buildings and landmarks that bear the name of Thebarton were in the history municipality, the Town of Thebarton , which included most of the adjoining suburb of Torrensville . These include the Thebarton Oval , the Thebarton croquet and bowls club, Thebarton Theatre , and Thebarton Senior College . The historic Adelaide Gaol , nominally shown as being in Thebarton, and
609-623: The last finals before the closure of the brewery in 2020, with the Woodville West Torrens Eagles colours aloft. The tradition of painting a chimney in the two teams' colours would continue at the Hoffmann Kiln at the Brickworks Marketplace in nearby Torrensville from 2021, with the cost of the painting continuing to be borne by Lion. SA Brewing was the original sponsor of the "Showdown" in
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#1732783300599638-641: The loss of over 90 jobs. It finally closed at close of business on 17 June 2021, with about a third of the workforce, mainly those in sales and sponsorship roles, staying on with the company in South Australia. Artefacts in the on-site museum were catalogued and donated to the State Library of South Australia and other local institutions. The South Australian Government purchased the 8.4 hectares (21 acres) Thebarton site from Lion Nathan for $ 61.5 million in 2023, intending to develop it with over 1,000 homes, of which 20% would be economical residential. The site
667-408: The original Thebarton Town Hall, designed by Alfred Wells and Latham Withall and built by James King, was laid in 1885. However it was gutted by fire in 1948, with its rebuilding and restoration described as "thoroughly horrible" in 1999. The Torrenside Brewery, next to the Torrens on Port Road , was founded in 1886 by A. W. & T. L. Ware, in the then suburb of Southwark. After acquisition by
696-706: The total population. The Thebarton campus of the University of Adelaide , also known as Adelaide University Research Park, occupies a complex of former industrial buildings in the northeastern corner of the suburb. The Wheatsheaf Hotel in George Street is a popular pub and music venue. It offers craft beers and wine from small producers, and also brews its own beers. Apart from regularly showcasing live music, "the Wheaty" also hosts book clubs, Morris dancers , knitting groups, and roller-derby parties. In 2017,
725-605: Was " Southcorp Wines ", (acquired from the Adelaide Steamship Company in 1990), and subsequently acquired by Lion Nathan's main Australian rival, the Foster's Group . West End Draught was the largest selling beer in South Australia in 2007. West End Draught is a 4.5% abv pale lager , first brewed in 1859. In October 2020 it was announced that the Thebarton brewery would be closing in June 2021, with
754-462: Was educated. The area was known as Theberton until approximately 1840, with the variant spelling now accredited to a typographical error, rather than a corruption of "The Barton", based on the Old English bere-tun , meaning "barley farm", as was thought for some time. Colonel Light surveyed the town-acre as Section 1 and built Theberton Cottage towards the northern part of the area. The area
783-427: Was first subdivided for housing in February 1839, although it took a number of years for the housing to establish, Thebarton Post Office opening on 24 October 1850. By 1866 the population was estimated at 450 people. Thebarton Racecourse, which operated from as early as 1838 to 1869, was formed on grazing land in the area now known as Mile End , and later subdivided and completely built over. The foundation stone of
812-560: Was produced in the Thebarton plant. Until 1974, when the Whitlam government revised the Trade Practices Act , they were legally able to dispense only the company's beer in their pubs. In 1980, faced with mounting problems with traffic on West Terrace and ageing and inefficient equipment, not to mention the rapidly increasing value of City land, the original West End Brewery closed and the property sold, operations moved to
841-562: Was taken over by the South Australian Brewing Company in 1938, after which operations were concentrated on the old Torrenside Brewery (established 1886, a precursor of Walkerville Brewery). The brewery was renamed Nathan Brewery to remove the Walkerville's "Southwark" branding in 1939. In 1941, architect F. Kenneth Milne (who was contracted to the company from 1912 until 1946) was responsible for upgrading
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