Lion Brewery, London it was demolished, is now at the south end of Westminster Bridge. A second Coade stone lion, which once stood over a gate at the brewery, is now located, painted gold, at a gate to the west of Twickenham Stadium. Lion Brewery, London The Lion Brewery was a London brewery on the south bank of the Thames next to Hungerford Bridge. The land was leased by James Goding, and the Lion Brewery was built there in 1836–37 by the architect Francis Edwards. In 1924, the company was taken over by the brewers Hoare and Co, of Wapping, was badly damaged
London Bridge or ferry when it was high. Both embankments, particularly the northern, would have offered stable beachheads for boat traffic up and downstream – the Thames and its estuary were a major inland and Continental trade route from at least the 9th century BC. There is archaeological evidence for scattered Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement nearby, but until a bridge was built there, London did not exist. A few miles upstream, beyond the river's upper tidal reach, two ancient fords were in use. These were apparently aligned with the course of Watling Street, which led into the heartlands of