Site of Anchor Brewery
List of brewers:
The Monger family 1616-1670
Josiah Child 1670-1693
Edmund Halsey MP 1693-1729
Ralph Thrale 1729-1758
Henry Thrale 1758-1781
Barclay, Perkins & Co 1781-1955
Courage Ltd 1955-1986
SE1, Park Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Anchor Brewery
Started by John Courage in Horselydown Lane. Ran the Anchor Brewery in Park S...
James Monger the elder established the Anchor Brewery in 1616 and ran it unti...
London merchant and director of the East India Company. Known as both Josiah ...
Born Hertfordshire, a distant relative of Josiah Child. Joined the Anchor Br...
Born 1724/1730, son of Ralph. Wealthy by dint of inheriting the Anchor Brewer...
Unveiled by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and a Rifles contingent of ten.
King Henry VIII, 1491-1547. Close to this site stood the King’s Manor House. Part of its boundary wall adjoins Cheyne Studio.
The St Marylebone Society Dodie Smith, 1895 - 1990, author and playwright, lived here.
2017: The building is behind scaffolding and the, very 60s, front is being reclad. Let's hope the plaque survives. 2024: Richard Tinckne...
Catherine Walters (Skittles), "The last Victorian Courtesan", lived here from 1872 until 1920.
These 3 memorials are all in the pleasantly traffic-free Kingsdown Close, at the front of the church. In relation to our photo, the cherr...
This image comes from the 1946 short documentary film 'Prisoners of the Tower'. It is shown laid into the ground at the centre of a cobbl...
We do find ourselves taking photos of the most unlikely subjects. Our close-up photo would win a "dull picture" prize. It would have be...
Lady Superintendent and Trustee of the Committee for the erection of the Florence Nightingale Hospital in 1909.
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