Robert Cole (Essex)

Robert Swinborne Cole, Halt Farm Brewery, Great Oakley, Essex.

Recorded in 1892.

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

This concern is listed for 1882 as a farmer, landowner, seed grower and brewer, finally being listed as a brewer in 1892.

This was no doubt a very typical home-brew estate business, supplying to the needs of the farm workers.

The farm house is a Victorian building with earlier outbuildings.