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The Anchor Inn, 34 Park Street, Southwark, Surrey, England

Tree: UK Thrale family

Notes:

Ralph Thrale MP purchsed the southern part of the land in 1739 and Henry Thrale purchased the northern part of the land in 1764 and converted it into a brewery tap called 'The Castle'.

Castell upon the Hope

At the junction of Bankside and Park Street (formerly known as Bank End) there stood in the 15th and 16th centuries an inn called the Castell upon the Hope - so called because of its turreted walls - with a wharf, houses and four cottages. The Castle was one of the Stewhouses of Bankside. Originally bathhouses, but later brothels. In 1559 Alexander Amcottes sold to Vincent Amcottes, citizen and fishmonger of London.

Southern portion

Vincent Amcottes divided the property. The southern portion he sold in 1580 to Richard Spier. This is the little alehouse on Bankside where on 2 September 1666 (the evening of Ther Great Fire of London)Samuel Pepys wrote:

Staid till it was dark and saw the fire grow.

It was bought by Ralph Thrale in 1739 and subsequently, a watch house was built on part of it and the rest was used to widen Park Street.

Northern portion

The northern portion was sold by Vincent Amcottes in 1562 to John Cheyne whose son and heir, Henry, on 30 January 1582/3, transferred it to John Drew. A fire devastated the pub and it was rebuilt in 1676. James James died in 1689 and the property was sold by his legatee, James Coysh, to Walter Gibbons who in 1725 leased it to Edmund Halsey.

In 1764 Henry Thrale, who had obtained a lease of the premises from Halsey’s executors, bought the freehold.

The Anchor

By the time Henry Thrale, purchased the property in 1764, a great many buildings had sprung up in the vicinity and the premises were in a tumbledown state and was pulled down. In 1770 Henry let the on a building lease to William Allen on the condition that he put it to sober use and erect substantial houses or similar buildings on the site. Thus the current 'Anchor Inn' building was erected in 1770–75 by William Allen for Henry Thrale. Thus Henry’s intervention transformed the site from a place of ill-repute to a honest ale house.

It became the brewery tap for Thrale’s - and later Barclay Perkins - Brewery. After Henry Thrale’s death on 4 April 1781, the Anchor Brewery, The Castle site and other buildings, were sold for £135,000 to:

• John Perkins (1739-1812),
• David Barclay (1729-1809);
• Robert Barclay (1750-1830); and
• Sylvanus Bevan (1743-1830).

Contemporary developments

In June 2008, the Anchor recently underwent one of the most costly refurbishments in British pub history, 2.6 million pounds funded by the current owners Punch Taverns

Further information about Anchor Brewery, including its location, development, images and documents is here.

Media

Photos		The Anchor, 1948.
		The Anchor. Date unknown.

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