Shad Thames

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COURAGES BREWERY.
Thames Riverscape showing Anchor Brewhouse, Horsleydown Old Stairs and Portland Wharf: 1937. The Anchor Brewhouse was a small brewery by Shad Thames in Horsleydown, near Tower Bridge. The brewhouse was bought by John Courage.
In 1955 Courage merged with its rival Barclays, Perkins & Co previously known as the Anchor Brewery (more information in Redcross Way Topic), moving to Shad Thames, in 1962.
After the Courage Brewery at Horsleydown was closed in 1981, the riverside frontage was retained while most of the brewery buildings to the rear were demolished. The riverside buildings were restored as far as possible to their original appearance and the chimney retained. The central section had been badly damaged by bombs during World War II and it was replaced by a modern steel and glass section, together with the projecting wooden boxes which originally allowed materials to be winched up from the barges in the river below. Additionally, a large vertical glass bay was added to the original west elevation overlooking Tower Bridge. Anchor Brewhouse now consists of 62 apartments, including studios, maisonettes, one- and two-bedroom apartments and a large penthouse on three floors, including the whole ninth floor. A new development, Tower Bridge Piazza, was constructed on the cleared area to the south of Shad Thames.

SHAD THAMES 1937, COURAGES BREWERY

The great Courage dray horses are commemorated by this statue 'Jacob' in Queen Elizabeth Street where the stables had been situated.

Shad Thames, Maggie Blake’s Causeway, 2020, near Horselydown Lane and opposite the old Courage’s Brewery.

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Union Cold Store, Bermondsey Wall, Bermondsey 1982.

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Horsleydown lane, Courages Brewery. More pictures in Horsleydown Topic.

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COURAGES BREWERY 1982

Shad Thames. (Brewery).

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Shad Thames, a street between warehouses in Bermondsey c.1936

Shad Thames, Warehouses, Bermondsey 1980.

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Pictures taken from Tooley Street.

Shad Thames,corner with Tooley Street,

Same location 2018.

Shad Thames left 1976. Jamaica Wharf & Dockhead Wharf were along the left-hand side.

Shad Thames from Tooley Street 2019,same location as the 1976 picture.

In the 1930s, Kalmars was Lime Wharf then down the right side Rich Mill, Dockhead Wharf, Shuters Wharf and St Georges Wharf.

C1980s,before it became Jamaica Wharf.

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A view of Shad Thames street with Victorian era gantries connecting old warehouse buildings, Bermondsey

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1906 Shad Thames Pumping Station Newell's Wharf, located on Maguire Street, it is still in operation today.

1906 Bovill and Sons premises on New Square, which is no longer there but has been replaced by Maguire Street. I could not find any history on Bovill and Sons in that area.

1939 Pumping Station machinery

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Bovill & Sons (above) was actually in Coles Lower Wharf, left of Newell's Wharf which is left of the stairs. Coles Upper Wharf (middle) and Coventry's Wharf (right). Coles Lower Wharf extended across Shad Thames into New Square as stated above.

Shad Thames, Wheat Wharf, originally known as Coles Upper Wharf, this was the largest granary in Bermondsey in the mid-19th century.

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Shad Thames, opposite Curlew Street.

Coles Upper Wharf left of Coventry's Wharf.