Walkerville Brewery

Walkerville Brewery was a brewer of beer in Adelaide, South Australia. The company became a Co-operative, and grew by admitting hotel owners as shareholders, and absorbed smaller breweries. After several amalgamations it moved its operations to Southwark (now part of Thebarton) and by 1920 it was South Australia's largest brewing company. It was bought out by the South Australian Brewing Company in 1939 and its facilities became the company's Southwark brewery, which still operates.

The first brewery in Walkerville was founded by William Colyer and William Williams, South Australia's first licensed publican. The partnership was dissolved late the same year, Colyer returned to England., Williams embarked on a program of expansion. He commissioned architect Thomas Price to erect new buildings on Fuller Street in 1846, identified as Lots 66 and 67, although Lots 64 and 65 on the other side of Walkerville Terrace (also known as Richmond Road) closer to the Torrens would seem more likely. A series of tunnels running down to the Torrens from Fuller Street and Warwick Street served as cellars (filled in c. 1970 preparatory to erecting the Highways Department building). The "tunnel" story has elsewhere been debunked, and identified as nothing but drains. Williams was found insolvent 1851, but had his certificate annulled in 1853. At some stage there was another brewery on Lot 41, Walkerville, on land purchased by N. P. Levi in October 1842, but whether part of this history is as yet not determined.

Edmund Levi, brother of Philip, the property's owner, took over management of Walkerville Brewery in 1853, leasing it to one James Thomson. In January 1860 fire destroyed the malthouse, which had been leased to Richard Goss (died 1869), who sold malt to Simms as well as to Thomson. In 1854 Thomson relinquished his share of the business and in October left the partnership to White & Phillips who shortly went bankrupt. Thomson was found insolvent in 1864 and jailed for two months. He was not clearly related to James Turnbull Thomson, brewer and founder of Balhannnah, who had more than his share of financial failures.

Around 1862 Ball & Huntley took over Thomson's defunct brewery, named it the "Black Horse Brewery". and began brewing there again, purchasing the property in 1870. Their malthouse was destroyed by fire on 5 June 1871. Ball died in 1882 and Huntley continued operating the brewery until 1890 when he retired.

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