Stourmouth

Both pictures above are of what is left of the Stourmouth Brewery buildings. Picture taken October 2003, by kind permission of Dover Library.

Francis Alexander White, Stourmouth Brewery, near Wingham, Kent, with 11 pubs and a malthouse, by Flint & Sons Ltd., Canterbury.

The following passage was written by Maggie Baldwin in January 2001. (More reading).

The old brewery, was once owned and operated by Francis A. WHITE. There was a cottage attached to the brewery in which lived an old woman, Mrs SARGENT. We children all thought she was a witch! She would come out and scream at us for playing among the ruins. I daresay she was only concerned for our safety!

Stourmouth Brewery once produced ales and Stourmouth also had a mineral water plant.  There was also a brewery, a post office, a school and a chapel; though these all closed during the twentieth century. In spite of this, the population has remained remarkably stable; in 1991 251 people were living here, almost exactly the same as 150 years before.