Frederick Rankin
Frederick Rankin, King's Head Brewery, 52 Bradford Street, Bocking, Essex.
Frederick was the son of Jabez Rankin of Braintree and rented the King’s Head from him.
Listed as a brewer at these premises in 1887/99 but was bankrupt by 1902 by when it had been sold to a Mr May.
Pub was included in the 1904 sale to Greene King & Sons Ltd.
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
The brewery was a later development from the malting business carried on at the rear of the public house by John Joyce in 1855. The earliest record of home-brewing was in 1890 by Frederick Rankin and continued for at least nine years.
An inscribed stone set into a boundary wall of the rear car park approached through a covered archway, indicates the position of the brewery well. The King's Head public house was included in the sale to Greene King & Sons Ltd with the Bocking Brewery in 1904.