The Diamond Brewery c.1895.
This brewery is believed to have been built
by Henry Worthington, a member of a prominent
Dover family. He built it close to Maxton Manor, on Folkestone
Road, after he had bought the property in 1849. When Henry
died in 1866 the brewery and all of the Maxton Estate were
left in trust to his brothers-in-law, to pay a yearly rent
equally to his two daughters while they remained unmarried.
One daughter died in 1883 , the other married in 1885, and
in July 1885 the property was auctioned.
The Diamond Brewery was purchased by John James Allen, who
sold it to Stanley Single in 1889, who in turn sold it to
Edwin Dawes in 1891. In 1898 Dawes sold it to Thomas Philips
& Co. Ltd., this firm going bankrupt in December 1907. The
company and its assets were sold off and the brewery was purchased
by Alfred Leney & Co.
in 1908. Leney & Co. used the site as a depot, with parts
sold off gradually over the years. In the early 1960s when
Leney’s original Phoenix Brewery finally closed, the old malt-house
on the Diamond Brewery site, between Maxton Road and Manor
Road, was used as a distribution depot.
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