riffiths (later Rock) Brewery (1809–1960), the Albion,
the Longhurst and the Bristol Steam Brewery. Many others failed to survive the
19th century. The Black Lion Brewery in The Lanes, founded by Dirick Carver in
1545, stopped brewing in 1901 but its buildings survived until 1968. The
biggest brewery was Tamplins (1821–1973), which owned over 200 pubs in Brighton
at one time and bought many smaller breweries such as the Smithers (1851) and
West Street (1767) companies
