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.