Folklore of Essex by Sylvia Kent

Author:Sylvia Kent
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780752499888
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

The old ale-conner.

William Cobbett, the eighteenth-century writer who often visited Essex, had very definite ideas about drinking beer. He preferred it to the newfangled tea, which he despised:

The drink, which has come to take the place of beer, has, in general, been tea. It is notorious, that tea has no useful strength in it; that it, besides being good for nothing, has badness in it, because it is well-known to produce want of sleep in many cases, and in all cases, to shake and weaken the nerves.

William Cobbett, Cottage Economy (1821)

The Weald of Kent produced hops for 400 years and was considered to be the finest place in England in which to grow hops. But just after the Second World War, when some of the Kentish farmers’ hop fields became infested with a virulent hop disease, an Essex farmer, Robert Goodchild, was asked to experiment with growing hops at Codham Hall Farm at Great Warley. Robert planted several thousand cuttings of Fuggles hops on a 2-acre paddock near his farm, on the hillside facing south, now part of the M25 motorway. Backed by the Hop Marketing Board and Whitbread’s, Robert’s efforts produced more than 5,000 bushels. He won two major awards at the Brewers’ Exhibition at Olympia in 1954 and 1957, competing against Kentish growers. Robert’s success with hop-growing entered him in the annals of farming folklore.

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