Beer Lane (originally Bear Lane or Beare Lane) was a short street of the City of London from at least 1570 to 1910. It ran from almost the east end of Great Tower Street (latterly № 37), from …

Beer Street and Gin Lane are two prints issued in 1751 by English artist William Hogarth in support of what would become the Gin Act. Designed to be viewed alongside each other, they …

Jun 10, 2015 · Hogarth created Beer Street and Gin Lane in order to add some punchy visual rhetoric to the same campaign. Rather than commission master-engravers from France, as he …

Beer Lane, which could also be found written as Bear Lane or Beare Lane, connected Tower Street to Thames Street. According to Stow’s description, the lane’s southern side featured …

Some have suggested Beer Lane was named after a sign of the bear in the lane while others have implied it was named as a way through to Brewers Key (Harben). Beer Lane is featured …

Dec 12, 2020 · The result, which would feature as a double-page spread in pamphlets sold around town was one of the greatest pieces of anti-drug campaigning ever, and one of the …

Beer-Lane, Great Tower-street, is the first turning on the left from Tower-hill opposite Seething-lane, and leading to No. 53, Lower Thames-street, opposite to the Custom-house.

Designed to be viewed next to one another, Beer Street and Gin Lane depict the contrasts of gin consumption versus beer consumption around the 'Gin Craze' of 18th Century England.

Truman's Brewery was a large East London brewery and one of the largest brewers in the world at the end of the 19th century. Founded around 1666, the Black Eagle Brewery was …