Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
• Continuing west and crossing under the Cannon Street Bridge, you could detour a half-
block to the left to find...
Vinopolis: City of Wine
This warehouse of wine—with a splash of France, a dash of ancient Rome, and a taste of
Italian
vino
—seems out of place in London, but no one's complaining. For more on this
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Switching from wine to beer, across the street is...
The Anchor and Bankside Road
The Anchor is the last of the original 22 licensed “inns” (tavern/brothel/restaurant/
nightclub/casino) of Bankside's red light district heyday in the 1600s. A tavern has stood
here for 800 years. The big brick buildings behind the inn were once part of the mass-pro-
ducing Anchor brewery, with the inn as its brew pub. (Even back in the 1300s, Chaucer
wrote, “If the words get muddled in my tale/Just put it down to too much Southwark ale.”)
