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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