Charles Brown & Sons Ltd
Charles Brown & Sons Ltd, Hatfield Peverel, Essex.
Founded by 1855 by Edward & James Rust.
Acquired by Brown in 1894. Private company registered 1906. Their 6 public houses were sold to Ridley & Sons Ltd. in June 1920 after they had acquired the brewery in April 1918.
Brewer's House and some outbuildings remain.
List of Charles Brown & Sons Ltd pubs
From ESSEX BREWERS - The Malting and Hop Industries of the County by Ian P Peaty 1992 now out of print ISBN 978 1 873966 02 4
Edwin and James Rust are recorded in 1855, subsequently Edwin Rust and Company is listed in 1882, the same year that there is a separate entry for Alfred Rust at the Hatfield Brewery.
Edwin Rust sold out in 1894 to Charles Brown, who was listed in 1899 as owning the very old maltings in Maltings Lane, Whitham. Charles Brown had five sons, one, Arthur, continued brewing, but sold the firms licensed houses on 24th June, 1920 to T.D.Ridley & Sons Ltd, Hartford End. The brewery was sold by the auctioneers Alfred Darby and Company on 19th April, 1918 to Ridley & Sons Ltd.
The premises consisted of a cellar 45' x 15', a tun room 15' x 15', fermenting room on the first floor and the brewing room on the second floor. The liquor cistern held six quarters, the maltstore was 72' x 22' on the first floor. The malthouse kiln flue was of the "Kentish" rotating pattern cowl. There was a 50' long bottle drying shed and W.C. with a 68' long stable block with three horse stalls. The Brewery house and some of the brewery buildings were re-sold again on 27th July, 1927.
There were six public houses sold to T.D.Ridley & Sons Ltd:-
- The Green Man, Broxted
- The Old Crown, Messing
- The Raising House, Tierling
- The Swan, Witham. See:-Swan Brewery (Witham)
- The Wheatsheaf, Hatfield Peverel
- The Victoria, Witham
