London 1982

Peter MARSHALL


River Wandle, Wandsworth. 1982
30i-21: river, sluice, flats,

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The River Wandle seen from The Causeway at the point where the sluice gate allows excess water to overflow between the two large concrete slabs at the bottom of the image into Bell Lane Creek out of sight some way down on the right. The picture is looking upstream towards the centre of Wandsworth; behind a pipe bridge you can see the balustrades of the Armoury Way bridge, and to its left are some of what I think were the Brewery Buildings.
 
Armoury Way is now home to the 'Ram Quarter', "an exciting new residential and retail quarter, combining contemporary living with iconic heritage at the historic young's brewery site" . Beer had probably been brewed at the Ram inn on the site for at least 250 years when Charles Young and Anthony Bainbridge purchased what had become the Ram Brewery in 1831. Young's Brewery left the site in 2005-6, though they still have around 220 pubs around London and the south-east but are no longer brewers, selling their brands to Charles Wells, who then sold out to Marstons. You can still buy Young's beers, but they are no longer the taste of the Wandle.