On this day in 1873

Spring Street, Tauranga, c.1900
Image courtesy of Tauranga City Library

28 August 1873 - First brew of beer from the Springwell Brewery.
The brewery was situated in the tall building with three windows at the centre of this photograph, on the north-west corner of Spring and Willow Streets.

The Bay of Plenty Times, 30 April 1888
Image courtesy of Papers Past