Swan Brewery
[citation needed] Sherwood inherited a successful building firm from his father Richard in 1831 and migrated to the Swan River Colony, with his wife Jessey and three children in 1843.
The lease was taken up by the partnership of John Maxwell Ferguson and William Mumme,[3] who appreciated the value of its pure water supply.
On 12 October 2012 Lion Nathan resolved to close the Canning Vale operations of the Swan Brewery by March 2013 and move production interstate.
The brewery buildings constructed in 1879 on the Swan River foreshore beneath Mount Eliza became one of Perth's dominant and favourite landmarks.
The car-park building on the opposite side of Mount's Bay Road replaced the historic stables[8] which caught fire and were demolished in 1988.
[9] Nevertheless, the state's Heritage Council noted that, prior to redevelopment, The place contains, albeit partially demolished, the finest connected group of late-Victorian and early 20th-century brewery buildings in Australia in a red brick and tile Federation style idiom.
[10]In 1989, the Western Australian state government vested the site in the building company Multiplex for a peppercorn rental, with a view to its being redeveloped as a commercial precinct.
The developers argued that the brewery had been built on land reclaimed from the Swan River and, therefore, the site of Noongar heritage importance was further inland, close to the Mount Eliza escarpment and the fresh water spring known as Kennedy's Fountain.
The on-site protest had endured for many months and culminated in a bitter but non-violent confrontation with police on 8 January 1990 at which several arrests were made.
[14] In 2019, Fiveight, the property investment arm of Tattarang, acquired the lease for the Old Swan Brewery from Besen Family Office.
In 2012 Lion Nathan announced that it would cease its brewing operations in Canning Vale and transfer production interstate.
The 39-hectare (96-acre) site was developed by Linc Property (which then merged with Fini Group to form Hesperia), in co-venture with Lion Nathan into an industrial land precinct.
