Richard Peters (Essex)

Richard Peters, The White Hart Hotel, Bocking, Essex.

At a sale on 21st April, 1869 the premises were described as "The Tap, recently repaired, capital cellerage and brew house attached immediately adjoins the Hotel, with a separate entrance from Coggeshall Road, present lucrative trade might be enhanced by converting it into a Gin Palace, for which its accomodation and position admirirably fit it". Probably the date when brewing ceased.

The hotel commands a prominent position in the town centre today, its mid-16th Century origins still discernable.

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