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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 57 SW 200 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Lowfield Street brewery |
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Summary
Lowfield Street, Dartford
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5423 7389 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ57SW |
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| Parish: | DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BREWERY (BREWERY, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- MALTINGS (MALTINGS, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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The brewery was originally named Fleet's Brewery and founded sometime before 1840. Miller & Aldworth aquired the brewery in the 1860's. From 1897 it was operated by the Dartford Brewery Co. Ltd. which was acquired by Style & Winch in 1924 and the brewery building (including any associated maltings) demolished.(1)
Demolished in 1930's for construction of Market Street (2)
<1> Norman Barber (Brewery History Society 1994), A Century of British Brewers 1890-1990 (Bibliographic reference). SKE6449.
<2> Scott Wilson, 2005, The Dartford Breweries-Documentary Research (Unpublished document). SKE13523.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Bibliographic reference: Norman Barber (Brewery History Society 1994). A Century of British Brewers 1890-1990. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Scott Wilson. 2005. The Dartford Breweries-Documentary Research. |
