The Sugar Loaves, Sible Hedingham

'The sign of the Three Sugar-loaves still occurs at Sible Hedingham, and has been in existence there for a century at least, as the house is mentioned in an advertisement in the Chelmsford{39} Chronicle on March 9, 1787. It can hardly be called an heraldic sign, as the three sugar-loaves seem only to have been set up by grocers as an emblem of their business. At the present time the house has no sign-board, but the three sugar-loaves are suspended over the door as here shown.' - from The Trade Signs of Essex, Miller Christy (1887)