If you head down Lindsells Walk, on the left you will find the Old Brewery – now known as Lindsells House – which became Coles Engineering Works before recently being converted into apartments.
The tall chimneystack, which was originally detached, still remains as a marker. Charles Cole, the proprietor of Coles Engineering, made the first carrot washing machine in the country.
It is Grade II Listed under its old name of “Charles Cole and Vermiculite”.
Photographs: now and then
Photo: Lindsells brewery renovation work. Photo: Chatteris Community Archive 
Lindsells brewery staff, 1898. Photo: Chatteris Community Archive 
Lindsells brewery container. Photo: Chatteris Community Archive / J Smith
Where is it?
Location and directions: Google Maps
Find out more
- Lindsells House on Google Streetview
- Lindsells Brewery on the Chatteris Community Archive
- Charles Cole and Vermiculite on Historic England’s register of listed buildings
Taking a digital tour of Chatteris?
If you’re taking a Digital Tour of Chatteris, continue along the High Street past The Hobbit Hole shop and the side of Chatteris Library. Carefully cross Furrowfields Road, paying attention to traffic on the roundabout as well as from the High Street. Very soon, on your right, you’ll come across a small opening in the buildings called “Pecks Yard“. This is our next stop.