Robert Cain (brewer) his mother's maiden name is listed as Mary Kirk (died 1864). The story of the life of Robert Cain and Cains Brewery is told in Christopher Routledge's 2008 history of the brewery, "Cains: The Story of Liverpool in a Pint", which unpicks many of the mythologies that have developed around the Cain family. Many of these mythologies seem to date back to the 1920s and 1930s, when Cain's sons William Cain and Charles Nall-Cain were given titles in the British honours system, and centre on the idea that the brewery's founder had a background in the Irish gentry. Such a
Queensland Brewery Company Building Queensland Brewery Company Building Queensland Brewery Company is a heritage-listed office building and warehouse at 501 Ann Street, Fortitude Valley, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by H. S. Macdonald for the Queensland Brewery Company and built from 1940 to 1942. It is also known as Credit Union Australia Building and RACQ Building. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. This building was constructed between 1940 and 1942 for the Queensland Brewery Company. Designed by Herbert Stanley Macdonald of Addison and Macdonald, it replaced the company's headquarters in Queen Street, Petrie Bight. Half