Red Lion Brewery

Barnard (1890) described how "sturdy porters" carried sacks of malt from Hoare's wharf to the warehouses in the brewery buildings: "We counted forty of these men ... each one bringing his sack of malt (weighing about one-and-a-half hundredweight) from the barge and depositing the contents in the warehouse".

[3] It is not known exactly when the brewery was founded, but it is believed to date back to the 'beerhouses' referred to in John Stow's Survey of England (1597).

[1] Through the Elizabethan era the brewery appears to have been part owned by the Crown, as well as at various times, the Poine, Long, Harrison, and Deane families, before being gifted by Elizabeth I to her favourite Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester.

The porter obtained fame all over London, and was mentioned in Oliver Goldsmith's poem, "Description Of An Author's Bedchamber".

In 1933, Charrington & Co. purchased Hoare and Co.'s Red Lion Brewery and production ceased a year later in 1934.

[7] There is essentially no surviving trace of the Red Lion Brewery building, as the site is now covered by the South Quay housing estate.