Brewery House, London
Borough or Brewery House at Thrale’s brewery. Click on image to enlarge.
Also known as Borough House, this mansion house was another of Henry Thrale's residences, within Thrale's Anchor Brewery. Samuel Johnson also had his own apartment here.
This was a four storey building located at the entrance of the cobbled brewyard. At the rear of the house was the nine acre brewery site with stables for around 100 horses, dung pits, 38 vats, storehouses, vaults and Clerk’s quarters.
This area, now known as Bankside is a strip of land running along the Thames, with a river walk, the Globe Theatre and the new Tate Gallery is an exciting and attractive part of London.
Borough House was located on the side of the first Independant Church in London, 1616. The address was Deadman's Place (so called because of the pesthouses established there during the great plague), now known as Park Street in Southwark, London. This was near to Bandyleg Walk, Dirty Lane, the Naked Boy, the Clink, Frying Pan Alley and St. Mary Overy's Dock. The area was once described as follows…
“London's scrap-heap, the refuge of its excluded occupations and its rejected residents.”
