Shad Thames is Victorian Warehouse District and is one of London’s most photogenic streets. Contact No:+447884282467 Email Id:info@chilloutlondon.com Website: https://www.chilloutlondon.com

1. Shad Thames
Shad Thames is Victorian Warehouse District and is one of London’s most
photogenic streets.
London has plenty of pretty little streets and mews many of which still have cobble
stoned roads. Shad Thames (such a cool name by the way), is one of these cobbled
streets full of Victorian warehouses converted into shops, cafes, restaurants and
apartments. A lot of these have retained the overhead gantries (bridges between
buildings that were once used to roll barrels), cranes and anything related to the
docks during the redevelopment of London’s East End.
Many of these warehouses date from 1819 with Butler’s Wharf being completed in
1873. It once referred to as ‘the larder of London’ as the warehouses stored mostly
sugar, grain, spices, fruit, coffee, tea etc. Shad Thames is within the Pool of London,
a deep, still section of the river Thames between London Bridge and Rotherhithe and
was ideal for docking ships in those early days.

2. The docks were very busy in the 1700s that many of the ships were stuck still laden
with their cargo waiting for days or even weeks to unload that they became targets
for pirates and robbers. Those who were caught were hanged by the ‘Devil’s
Neckinger Neckerchief’, a London slang used for the rope or noose that hung pirates
and robbers at the mouth of the docks. The river that fed the nearby inlet took the
name Neckinger. The docks were eventually closed in 1972 with the area being
regenerated with the warehouses being converted into shops, cafes, restaurants and
apartments.

3. Shad Thames can be found here, Butler’s Wharf, London SE1 2QY. The nearest
tube/underground/metro stations are Bermondsey, London Bridge and Tower Hill.
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Contact No:+447884282467
Email Id:info@chilloutlondon.com
Website: https://www.chilloutlondon.com