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
Tunnels underneath the River Thames the Port of London, which until the 1980s required large ships to be able to access the river as far upstream as the City of London. Until the construction of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge in 1991, the easternmost bridge on the Thames was Tower Bridge in central London. Even now, the Dartford Crossing provides the only way to cross the Thames by road between London and the sea (with predictable results for traffic congestion). The width of the river downstream meant that tunnels were the only options for crossings before improvements in technology allowed the construction of high bridges