Note that additional pictures and other supplementary materials
about the Foxearth Brewery are available at the Foxearth &

How lucky we are that Richard Morris has used his
journalistic expertise to provide us with such a refreshing
slant on local history.

His ‘biography of a brewery’ vividly illuminates the
village of Foxearth as it was, together with life and social
conditions along the Suffolk-Essex border from 1840-1960.

Yet we are treated to more. We follow the birth,
phenomenal growth and eventual demise of a business
enterprise; we see the effect of twentieth century change on
both that enterprise and the surrounding community and
we share in the heartache and loss of the First World War.

 This is a local history – but one that is placed in a
regional and national context. As we turn the pages we feel
we are living through bygone decades; we smell the malt
and hops in our nostrils and we come to know the
personalities involved, until finally, at the end, we feel
sadness at the brewery’s closure.

Ashley Cooper ,
 President, Foxearth & District Local History Society