Cook & Sons Ltd

The Halstead brewery

The Halstead brewery

G E Cook & Sons Ltd, Tidings Hill Brewery, Halstead, Essex.

Founded 1885 at the Griffin, Parsonage Lane, but brewing ceased there in 1913. The Tidings Hill Brewery was built in 1908.

Registered in 1961. No tied houses but owned ten off-licences at closure.

Brewery closed October 1974. Their three beers - all bottled - were then produced by Ridley & Sons Ltd.

Some parts survive.

See also: Cook Brothers (Colchester).

An assortment of images of the Halstead brewery

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Their main retail outlet in 1973. Courtesy Roy Denison

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