An early photo of The Cricketers public house when owned by John Kemp King whose brewery was the other side of the road. Kings' workers (brewers and seedsmen) were expected to drink at the Cricketers. Kings sold the Inn it with their other pubs to Messrs Daniel and Sons, brewers of West Bergholt, in December 1907.
On the right, just visible, is a warehouse used by John K King as a store for pea and bean seeds and which may at one time have been old Gravel Factory, on two floors it ran across Robins Brook and was used for silk making. Now demolished.
Date: c1890
Ref: 25/17